{"id":884,"date":"2008-02-14T05:00:11","date_gmt":"2008-02-14T10:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=884"},"modified":"2008-02-14T06:30:16","modified_gmt":"2008-02-14T11:30:16","slug":"valentines-day-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2008\/02\/14\/valentines-day-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"Valentine’s Day Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"

Barbara Boxer sent me an e-mail yesterday. Surprisingly, she wasn’t wishing me a happy Valentine’s Day. She wanted money (sometimes I think the only reason she writes to me is because she wants money). The reason<\/em><\/strong> she wants money is to get “60 votes” in the Senate. Well, Babs (can I call you Babs? After all, you e-mail more often than most people in my family do, so I feel as if we’re close personal friends), if the vote to grant retroactive immunity to the telecom companies is any indication (just one disgusting vote out of many, I might add), to get to 60 votes, you’re going to need to pick up 22 Senate seats (that’s assuming my Senator, Clinton, can be convinced to show up and vote, of course) in order to get 60 votes. <\/p>\n

Because of the corrupt fucking traitors in your party, about the only thing you’ll ever get 60 votes on is to give yourselves a pay raise, or to condemn MoveOn.org for putting an ad in a newspaper (or something equally as stupid, like an anti-steroids-in-baseball ‘sense of the Senate’ resolution, or ‘admonishing’ Senator Wide Stance or something). <\/p>\n

There never even would have been<\/em><\/strong> a vote on the version of the bill with immunity if it weren’t for your feckless fucking majority ‘leader,’ Harry Reid. He could have either respected Chris Dodd’s hold, or brought the Senate Judiciary Committee’s version to the floor. So, better get rid of hapless Harry, too.<\/p>\n

Sorry Barbara, but until you can do something with the asshole Democrats you’ve already got, don’t come to me with your hands out looking for money from me. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Barbara Boxer sent me an e-mail yesterday. Surprisingly, she wasn’t wishing me a happy Valentine’s Day. She wanted money (sometimes I think the only reason she writes to me is because she wants money). The reason she wants money is to get “60 votes” in the Senate. Well, Babs (can I call you Babs? After […]<\/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-884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884","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=884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}