{"id":190363,"date":"2009-12-05T23:04:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-06T04:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/12\/05\/hypocrite\/"},"modified":"2009-12-05T23:04:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-06T04:04:00","slug":"hypocrite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/12\/05\/hypocrite\/","title":{"rendered":"Hypocrite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, Senator Max Baucus (DINO-MT) submitted the name of his former state office director to be US Attorney in Montana to the President.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not so bad, in fact, that&#8217;s what passes for normal.<\/p>\n<p>What doesn&#8217;t pass for normal is that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mainjustice.com\/2009\/12\/04\/baucus-girlfriend-withdrew-as-u-s-attorney-candidate\/\">they are sleeping together, and have been since before both got divorced from their prior spouses<\/a>. (see also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollcall.com\/news\/41188-1.html\">here<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>\u201cSenator Baucus is currently in a mature and happy relationship with Melodee Hanes. They are both divorced, and in no way was their relationship the cause of their respective divorces,\u201d Ty Matsdorf, a spokesperson for Baucus, said in a statement to Main Justice.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, and Larry Craig has a wide stance.<\/p>\n<p>More significantly, they started &#8220;dating&#8221; in the summer of 2008, and she was working as Baucus&#8217;s state director and counsel until spring of <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">this<\/span> year, which means that he was Cheneying a subordinate, which is sexual harassment, even if the subordinate is willing, if you are not a Senator anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, Senator Max Baucus (DINO-MT) submitted the name of his former state office director to be US Attorney in Montana to the President. That&#8217;s not so bad, in fact, that&#8217;s what passes for normal. What doesn&#8217;t pass for normal is that they are sleeping together, and have been since before both got divorced from their &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,970,978,1075],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-corruption","category-politics","category-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190363"}],"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=190363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}