{"id":188651,"date":"2010-08-18T19:41:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T00:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/08\/18\/hes-not-the-wanker-of-the-day\/"},"modified":"2010-08-18T19:41:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-19T00:41:00","slug":"hes-not-the-wanker-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/08\/18\/hes-not-the-wanker-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"He&#8217;s Not the Wanker of the Day\u2026\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But only because <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/well-f-me.html\">Howard Dean gets that honor today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Once again, it&#8217;s Chris Dodd, who continues to audition for his 7-figure lobbying gig, because after sending out signals that she was a great candidate, but not confirmable, there has been a groundswell of support that appears to be dragging the Obama administration kicking and screaming into nominating her. (I still don&#8217;t think that they will)<\/p>\n<p>So now Dodd has taking a new tack, saying that <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/114793-dodd-hedges-on-warren-nomination-\">he is unsure if she is qualified<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>&#8220;If the president wants to name her and it goes through the hearing process, then fine, she&#8217;ll have my support,&#8221; Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) told the Hartford Courant editorial board. &#8220;But she has to tell me more than just she&#8217;s a good consumer advocate or that&#8217;s she&#8217;s got a great campaign.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It isn&#8217;t just a question of being a consumer advocate. I want to see that she can manage something, too.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dude, you ran for President of the United States, and you never managed anything bigger than a a Senator&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p>&lt;Facepalm&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But only because Howard Dean gets that honor today. Once again, it&#8217;s Chris Dodd, who continues to audition for his 7-figure lobbying gig, because after sending out signals that she was a great candidate, but not confirmable, there has been a groundswell of support that appears to be dragging the Obama administration kicking and screaming &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1004,978,985,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-finance","category-politics","category-regulation","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188651"}],"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=188651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}