{"id":187877,"date":"2011-02-09T20:40:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T01:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/02\/09\/jim-webb-not-running-for-reelection-to-us-senate\/"},"modified":"2011-02-09T20:40:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-10T01:40:00","slug":"jim-webb-not-running-for-reelection-to-us-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/02\/09\/jim-webb-not-running-for-reelection-to-us-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Webb Not Running for Reelection to US Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am unsurprised by <a href=\"http:\/\/thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/02\/09\/webb-will-not-run-for-senate\/\">his announcement<\/a>, he never struck me as someone who enjoyed the &#8220;World&#8217;s Greatest Deliberative Body&#8221; (Hah!), but it means that it&#8217;s highly likely that whoever the &#8216;Phants nominate in 2012 will take the seat, which means that they will need only 3 more seats to take control of the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>While from a numerical perspective, this is a bit of a bummer, from an ideological perspective, he was always a bit of a DINO, he served in Reagan administration, so I am not sad to seem him go from that perspective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am unsurprised by his announcement, he never struck me as someone who enjoyed the &#8220;World&#8217;s Greatest Deliberative Body&#8221; (Hah!), but it means that it&#8217;s highly likely that whoever the &#8216;Phants nominate in 2012 will take the seat, which means that they will need only 3 more seats to take control of the Senate. While &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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187877"}],"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=187877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}