{"id":189882,"date":"2010-02-04T15:03:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T20:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/02\/04\/talk-about-mixed-emotions-3\/"},"modified":"2010-02-04T15:03:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T20:03:00","slug":"talk-about-mixed-emotions-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/02\/04\/talk-about-mixed-emotions-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Talk About Mixed Emotions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/thefix\/senate\/former-sen-dan-coats-to-challe.html?wprss=thefix\">Dan Coats will run against Evan Bayh for the US Senate in Indiana<\/a>, and I have mixed emotions about this.<\/p>\n<p>Coats is clearly a wingnut, he was screaming &#8220;wag the dog&#8221; about Clinton military activities in addition to being a fierce supporter of Harriet Miers, but he is running against Evan Bayh, and Evan Bayh really sucks.<\/p>\n<p>I know that LBJ said that, &#8220;Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside pissing in,&#8221; but Bayh is inside the tent pissing in.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, he&#8217;s corrupt, bought and paid for though his wife, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Evan_Bayh#Relationship_between_his_Senate_office_and_wife.27s_corporate_career\">who gets highly remunerative board positions by virtue of his pro-special interest votes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Since he&#8217;s given up on being President, he&#8217;s moved very far to the right, and he&#8217;s more of a hurt than a help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Coats will run against Evan Bayh for the US Senate in Indiana, and I have mixed emotions about this. Coats is clearly a wingnut, he was screaming &#8220;wag the dog&#8221; about Clinton military activities in addition to being a fierce supporter of Harriet Miers, but he is running against Evan Bayh, and Evan Bayh &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-189882","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\/189882"}],"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=189882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}