{"id":189613,"date":"2010-03-03T21:58:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T02:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/03\/03\/worst-of-all-possible-worlds\/"},"modified":"2010-03-03T21:58:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T02:58:00","slug":"worst-of-all-possible-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/03\/03\/worst-of-all-possible-worlds\/","title":{"rendered":"Worst of All Possible Worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie Rangel <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2010\/03\/dems-grateful-relieved-over-rangels-exemplary-leadership.php?ref=fpb\">taking a temporary leave from his position as Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While it&#8217;s unlikely that he will be back, and he <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">does<\/span> have ethical issues, the Democrats have split the baby again.<\/p>\n<p>They could have faced down the Republicans, and maybe dug up a few of the skeletons in <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">their<\/span> closets, or they could have stripped him of his committee chairmanship, but by allowing the fig leaf of a temporary leave, they both knuckle under <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">and<\/span> leave the issue on the table for Republicans to talk about.<\/p>\n<p>Worst of all possible worlds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie Rangel taking a temporary leave from his position as Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee. While it&#8217;s unlikely that he will be back, and he does have ethical issues, the Democrats have split the baby again. They could have faced down the Republicans, and maybe dug up a few of the skeletons in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,970,978,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-corruption","category-politics","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189613"}],"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=189613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}