{"id":184137,"date":"2012-07-24T20:05:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-25T01:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/07\/24\/wanker-of-the-decade\/"},"modified":"2012-07-24T20:05:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-25T01:05:00","slug":"wanker-of-the-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/07\/24\/wanker-of-the-decade\/","title":{"rendered":"Wanker of the Decade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wisconsin State Senator Tim Cullen, who <a href=\"http:\/\/host.madison.com\/wsj\/news\/local\/govt-and-politics\/cullen-to-leave-democratic-caucus-in-state-senate\/article_b13c6b52-d5c8-11e1-90b2-001a4bcf887a.html\">left the Democratic Caucus over a hissy fit about committee assignments<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While he&#8217;s not joined the Republican caucus, which would flip the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>All reports are that he was Republican Governor Scott Walker&#8217;s favorite Democrat in the Senate, so I peg this as a case of Joe Lieberman syndrome, where they act like a complete prat if they feel that they have not received the requisite obsequious adulation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wisconsin State Senator Tim Cullen, who left the Democratic Caucus over a hissy fit about committee assignments. While he&#8217;s not joined the Republican caucus, which would flip the Senate. All reports are that he was Republican Governor Scott Walker&#8217;s favorite Democrat in the Senate, so I peg this as a case of Joe Lieberman syndrome, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[978,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184137"}],"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=184137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}