{"id":3462,"date":"2010-06-18T06:55:05","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T10:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=3462"},"modified":"2010-06-18T06:55:05","modified_gmt":"2010-06-18T10:55:05","slug":"shakedown-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2010\/06\/18\/shakedown-street\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakedown Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tough day in Congress yesterday over the BP oil hole.  Not for BP CEO Tony Hayward, whose day wasn&#8217;t great, but he sat there and took it like a man (well, not so much a man as pasty-faced little corporate shill, but whattya gonna do?  I mean, the man already postponed his summer vacation &#8211; what else do you want out of him).  But it turned out to be a <strong><em>really<\/em><\/strong> bad day for meathead Republican Joe &#8220;Shakedown&#8221; Barton, who was <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2010\/06\/how-joe-barton-managed-to-have-a-worse-day-than-tony-hayward.php?ref=fpa\">forced to apologize for apologizing to BP<\/a>, lest he lose his position as Ranking Member on the House Energy and Commerce Committee.  <\/p>\n<p>Barton rescinded his apology (so, does that mean he wasn&#8217;t really sorry?  Or is it that he&#8217;s just a callous, lying, loudmouthed blowhard), and is reportedly on a very tight leash.  In addition to the leash, I&#8217;d advise a muzzle.  No word on whether Michele Bachmann will be getting fitted for a muzzle as well (though I get the feeling she&#8217;d prefer a studded collar).<\/p>\n<p>After several short weeks, I&#8217;ve actually made it through a five-day one (assuming I make it through today, which isn&#8217;t exactly a gimmee).    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tough day in Congress yesterday over the BP oil hole. Not for BP CEO Tony Hayward, whose day wasn&#8217;t great, but he sat there and took it like a man (well, not so much a man as pasty-faced little corporate shill, but whattya gonna do? I mean, the man already postponed his summer vacation &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3463,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3462\/revisions\/3463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}