{"id":1454,"date":"2008-10-13T19:33:43","date_gmt":"2008-10-13T23:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=1454"},"modified":"2008-10-13T19:33:43","modified_gmt":"2008-10-13T23:33:43","slug":"in-search-of-better-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/10\/13\/in-search-of-better-democrats\/","title":{"rendered":"In Search of *Better* Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Tim Mahoney (D-FL) is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2008\/10\/13\/14239\/762\/151\/629374\">Democrat I&#8217;d be entirely okay with seeing lose<\/a>, next month.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 My goal isn&#8217;t just Democrats in office &#8211; it&#8217;s <strong>better people<\/strong>* in office.<\/p>\n<p>*Which, as a general rule, works out to be better Democrats.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 In the end, even otherwise-decent Republicans like Connie Morella, Chris Shays, and Wayne Gilchrest voted to have moral midgets like Newt Gingrich and Tom DeLay steer the national agenda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Tim Mahoney (D-FL) is a Democrat I&#8217;d be entirely okay with seeing lose, next month.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 My goal isn&#8217;t just Democrats in office &#8211; it&#8217;s better people* in office. *Which, as a general rule, works out to be better Democrats.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 In the end, even otherwise-decent Republicans like Connie Morella, Chris Shays, and Wayne Gilchrest voted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1455,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454\/revisions\/1455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}