{"id":825,"date":"2007-12-18T05:00:42","date_gmt":"2007-12-18T10:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=825"},"modified":"2007-12-17T20:19:54","modified_gmt":"2007-12-18T01:19:54","slug":"tuesday-open-thread-79","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2007\/12\/18\/tuesday-open-thread-79\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, whattya think?  McCain-Lieberman &#8217;08?  Has a nice ring to it, doesn&#8217;t it?  A real &#8220;bipartisan&#8221; ticket.  Congratulations to Chis Dodd, on forcing Reid to pull the godawful telecom immunity bill, even if it&#8217;s just temporary.  It was really great of the Democratic &#8220;frontrunners&#8221; to come help Dodd out (not), wasn&#8217;t it?  Especially Obama.  He talks a great game &#8211; lauds himself for speaking out against Iraq at a time when he wasn&#8217;t in a position to actually make a difference &#8211; but never saw a war appropriations bill he didn&#8217;t like, and was downright irritated when his constituents forced him to support a filibuster of Scalito (which he preemptively disavowed even before he bothered voting).  Oh well, whattya gonna do?  Everybody should slip Dodd a couple of bucks, if you can afford it.  At least there&#8217;s one person in the Senate with a spine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, whattya think? McCain-Lieberman &#8217;08? Has a nice ring to it, doesn&#8217;t it? A real &#8220;bipartisan&#8221; ticket. Congratulations to Chis Dodd, on forcing Reid to pull the godawful telecom immunity bill, even if it&#8217;s just temporary. It was really great of the Democratic &#8220;frontrunners&#8221; to come help Dodd out (not), wasn&#8217;t it? Especially Obama. He [&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-825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825","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=825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}