{"id":175916,"date":"2020-10-25T18:54:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-25T23:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/10\/25\/of-course-she-did\/"},"modified":"2020-10-25T18:54:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-25T23:54:00","slug":"of-course-she-did","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/10\/25\/of-course-she-did\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Course She Did"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lisa Murkowski has reversed course, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/supreme-court\/murkowski-reverses-course-will-vote-confirm-barrett-supreme-court-n1244653\">has announced that she will vote to confirm Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>She doesn&#8217;t care, her next election is in 2022, and she figures that it won&#8217;t be a problem then.<\/p>\n<p>I will remind you what I say about the &#8220;Centrists&#8221; in both parties: <\/p>\n<p>A liberal (moderate) Republican will:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Talk about the need to work across the aisle.<\/li>\n<li>Plead for moderation.<\/li>\n<li>Chastise his party for extremism. <\/li>\n<li>Sometimes vote against his party.<\/li>\n<li>When the vote is close, and it is important, he <b><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-variant: small-caps;\">will vote with the Republicans<\/span><\/b>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/2jHi9YV.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/2jHi9YV.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"125\" \/><\/a>A moderate (conservative) Democrat will:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Talk about the need to work across the aisle.<\/li>\n<li>Plead for moderation.<\/li>\n<li>Chastise his party for extremism. <\/li>\n<li>Sometimes vote against his party.<\/li>\n<li>When the vote is close, and it is important, he <b><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-variant: small-caps;\">will vote with the Republicans<\/span><\/b>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lisa Murkowski has reversed course, and has announced that she will vote to confirm Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. She doesn&#8217;t care, her next election is in 2022, and she figures that it won&#8217;t be a problem then. I will remind you what I say about the &#8220;Centrists&#8221; in both parties: A &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":[447,368,364,407,374],"class_list":["post-175916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-congress","tag-corruption","tag-evil","tag-justice","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175916"}],"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=175916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}