{"id":184462,"date":"2012-04-23T18:44:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T23:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/04\/23\/the-manchin-lieberman-axis-in-the-senate\/"},"modified":"2012-04-23T18:44:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-23T23:44:00","slug":"the-manchin-lieberman-axis-in-the-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/04\/23\/the-manchin-lieberman-axis-in-the-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"The Manchin-Lieberman Axis In The Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So called Democrat Joe Manchin is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaljournal.com\/daily\/manchin-on-the-fence-about-obama-vote-20120419\">refusing to endorse Barack Obama for president<\/a>, and rather unsurprisingly, <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/222929-lieberman-declines-to-endorse-in-presidential-race\">so is Joe Lieberman<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, it is a bit of a surprise.&nbsp; I would have expected Lieberman to endorse the Republican again.<\/p>\n<p>But the West Virginia Senate election is a big priority of the DSCC, which is why I <b>won&#8217;t give to the DSCC<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever money I have to contribute goes to real Democrats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So called Democrat Joe Manchin is refusing to endorse Barack Obama for president, and rather unsurprisingly, so is Joe Lieberman. Actually, it is a bit of a surprise.&nbsp; I would have expected Lieberman to endorse the Republican again. But the West Virginia Senate election is a big priority of the DSCC, which is why I &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1000,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-elections","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184462"}],"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=184462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}