{"id":185344,"date":"2011-07-25T19:01:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/07\/25\/good-riddance-to-bad-rubbish-2\/"},"modified":"2011-07-25T19:01:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-26T00:01:00","slug":"good-riddance-to-bad-rubbish-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/07\/25\/good-riddance-to-bad-rubbish-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Democratic&#8221; Congressman Mike Ross (AR-4), has a<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/07\/25\/us-campaign-arkansas-congressman-idUSTRE76O4TX20110725\">nnounced that he will not seek reelection in 2012<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>The only Democratic congressman in Arkansas, Mike Ross, said on Monday that he will not seek a seventh term in the U.S. House of Representatives, saying he wants to spend more time with his family.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement sent a shock through Arkansas political circles, and opened the possibility of a Republican replacement for the popular congressman. The redistricting process has left Ross&#8217;s district heavily GOP, with an uphill battle for Democrats there next cycle.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Note that he&#8217;s not only a member of the phoney Democrat &#8220;Blue Dog&#8221; Caucus, he is one of their co-chairs, and it&#8217;s these folks, who seem to value holding office above any hint of real political values, and they were the ones hardest hit by&nbsp; the 2010 sweep, because people do not like voting for weasels.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, this means that the DCCC will doubtless find <b>yet another<\/b> phony Dem, and throw enormous sums of money at him, in the hope that he can make it to Washington, and vote against the party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Democratic&#8221; Congressman Mike Ross (AR-4), has announced that he will not seek reelection in 2012: The only Democratic congressman in Arkansas, Mike Ross, said on Monday that he will not seek a seventh term in the U.S. House of Representatives, saying he wants to spend more time with his family. The announcement sent a shock &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1000,1051],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-elections","category-hypocrisy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185344"}],"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=185344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}