{"id":175621,"date":"2021-01-07T18:59:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-07T23:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/01\/07\/depressing-as-hell-but-true\/"},"modified":"2021-01-07T18:59:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T23:59:00","slug":"depressing-as-hell-but-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/01\/07\/depressing-as-hell-but-true\/","title":{"rendered":"Depressing as Hell, But True"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Silly. Joe Manchin is now the chair of every committee. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HbtdYGTu7F\">https:\/\/t.co\/HbtdYGTu7F<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/matthewstoller\/status\/1346799806639972352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 6, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Matt Stoller is right.<\/p>\n<p>Because of the one vote margin in the Senate, Joe Manchin&#8217;s ego, and the needs of his campaign donors, will be driving the Senate Agenda.<\/p>\n<p>The Dems should call him out early and often.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Better to call his bluff, and have an excuse for nothing getting done, than to acquiesce, and suffer the consequences of bad policy and worse politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silly. Joe Manchin is now the chair of every committee. https:\/\/t.co\/HbtdYGTu7F \u2014 Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) January 6, 2021 Matt Stoller is right. Because of the one vote margin in the Senate, Joe Manchin&#8217;s ego, and the needs of his campaign donors, will be driving the Senate Agenda. The Dems should call him out early and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[447,368,374],"class_list":["post-175621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-congress","tag-corruption","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175621"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}