{"id":1824,"date":"2008-11-18T13:10:57","date_gmt":"2008-11-18T17:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=1824"},"modified":"2008-11-18T14:01:01","modified_gmt":"2008-11-18T18:01:01","slug":"democratic-disappointment-starts-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/11\/18\/democratic-disappointment-starts-early\/","title":{"rendered":"Democratic Disappointment Starts Early"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like the Senate wanted to get out in front of Obama and <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2008\/11\/reid_vast_majority_of_dem_cauc.php\">be the first to disappoint us<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Senate Democrats are rewarding Joe Lieberman for questioning the President-Elect&#8217;s most basic intentions, and keeping Lieberman in a chairmanship for which he has demonstrated little interest in actually using for the public good.\u00c2\u00a0 Great job, guys.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> I think Jane Hamsher <a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/2008\/11\/18\/lieberman-suck-on-that-liberals\/\">puts it well<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I hope this puts to rest the notion that this is all some master stroke of kumbayah, of keeping your friends close and your enemies closer.<\/p>\n<p>This is about telling <em>you<\/em> that you mean nothing. \u00c2\u00a0 That democracy is a nice word, but it should never threaten the entitlement of the most exclusive club in the world.<\/p>\n<p>No matter what Joe Lieberman does, the people who are protecting him hate you <em>much more<\/em> than they hate him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like the Senate wanted to get out in front of Obama and be the first to disappoint us.\u00c2\u00a0 Senate Democrats are rewarding Joe Lieberman for questioning the President-Elect&#8217;s most basic intentions, and keeping Lieberman in a chairmanship for which he has demonstrated little interest in actually using for the public good.\u00c2\u00a0 Great job, guys. [&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-1824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824","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=1824"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1826,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824\/revisions\/1826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}