{"id":4652,"date":"2011-12-09T08:37:34","date_gmt":"2011-12-09T13:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=4652"},"modified":"2011-12-09T11:06:39","modified_gmt":"2011-12-09T16:06:39","slug":"chip-c-and-congressional-insider-trading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=4652","title":{"rendered":"Chip C and Congressional Insider trading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I listened absent mindedly to NPR just now, while reading the DNT, my ears perked up when Chip Cravaack sided with his buddy Eric <em>Obama is Satan<\/em> Cantor on protecting Congressmen who use their positions of power to make good stock investments from a witch hunting Security Exchange Commission. Sadly NPR didn&#8217;t have a link to their story on the <strong>Stock Act<\/strong> when I started posting this so I&#8217;ll just update this post when NPR&#8217;s Morning Edition site links to the story.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FOLLOW UP:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Evidently this story got started on CBS&#8217;s Sixty Minutes. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2011\/11\/17\/142472051\/rep-bachus-defends-trades\">An earlier NPR story<\/a> in mid November summarizes the background. I don&#8217;t know why the latest story is being held up. Maybe they plan on running it again this afternoon on All Things Considered.<\/p>\n<p>To back off my snarky comments on Chip I&#8217;d say his stated desire to further vet the law sounds reasonable. I&#8217;m just sad to say that the state of politics today is such its hard for me not to take his immediate defense of his GOP allies as crass partisanship. I see very few Republicans who are willing to deviate from the party line although it is entertaining to watch the GOP Presidential candidates repudiating Ronald Reagan&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Eleventh_Commandment_(Ronald_Reagan)\">&#8220;Eleventh Commandment.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I listened absent mindedly to NPR just now, while reading the DNT, my ears perked up when Chip Cravaack sided with his buddy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4652"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4652"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4660,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4652\/revisions\/4660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}