{"id":5122,"date":"2010-05-06T12:11:37","date_gmt":"2010-05-06T16:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=5122"},"modified":"2010-05-06T12:11:37","modified_gmt":"2010-05-06T16:11:37","slug":"democrat-stalwarts-if-nothing-else-wise-enough-to-know-when-to-quit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/5122\/democrat-stalwarts-if-nothing-else-wise-enough-to-know-when-to-quit\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrat Stalwarts: If Nothing Else, Wise Enough to Know When to Quit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Representative David Obey (D-WI), chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, announced Wednesday he will not seek reelection this November, leaving a well-worn seat occupied since 1969.\u00a0 Mr. Obey is the most recent on a lengthy list of long-serving Democrats seeking to \u201cbegin a new and exciting chapter\u201d of life, in the words of fellow retiree, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2010\/04\/09\/rep-bart-stupak-retire\/\">Bart Stupak<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 Surely this has nothing to do with the widely expected revolt against the party in power.<\/p>\n<p>Still, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/05\/06\/us\/politics\/06obey.html\">Obey<\/a> wants there to be no confusion:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI\u2019ve won 25 elections. Does anybody really think I don\u2019t know how to win another one?\u00a0 Or, for that matter, has anybody ever seen me walk away from a fight in my life?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Even so, after four <em>decades<\/em> in office, bowing out on one\u2019s own terms is a far more desirable option than being battered or possibly blown away in the storm that\u2019s brewing for this fall election.\u00a0 Sen. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/01\/06\/AR2010010600023.html\">Chris Dodd<\/a> saw the writing on the wall and accepted his \u201cmoment to step aside.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dodd, Obey and Stupak all took serious political hits in the last year and a half.\u00a0 Dodd was at the helm of oversight on Wall Street when things went south.\u00a0 Obey spearheaded the wildly unsuccessful $787 billion economic stimulus.\u00a0 Stupak infamously caved during the final ObamaCare vote.\u00a0 Each has made a career contributing to a legacy of spending that has our country on the brink of financial ruin.<\/p>\n<p>Now, each rides off into the sunset.\u00a0 Enjoy retirement, fellas.\u00a0 Don\u2019t worry about the mess.\u00a0 Our grandchildren will pick it up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Representative David Obey (D-WI), chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, announced Wednesday he will not seek reelection this November, leaving a well-worn seat occupied since 1969.\u00a0 Mr. Obey is the most recent on a lengthy list of long-serving Democrats seeking to \u201cbegin a new and exciting chapter\u201d of life, in the words of fellow retiree, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[700,1235,1234,1236,1091],"class_list":["post-5122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2010-elections","tag-dodd","tag-obey","tag-retirement","tag-stupak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5122"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5134,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5122\/revisions\/5134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}