{"id":190467,"date":"2009-11-22T20:05:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-23T01:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/11\/22\/portrait-of-a-pandering-or-courage\/"},"modified":"2009-11-22T20:05:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-23T01:05:00","slug":"portrait-of-a-pandering-or-courage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/11\/22\/portrait-of-a-pandering-or-courage\/","title":{"rendered":"Portrait of a Pandering or Courage?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"BORDER-BOTTOM: black 1px solid; TEXT-ALIGN: center; BORDER-LEFT: black 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 10px; WIDTH: 330px; FLOAT: right; BORDER-TOP: black 1px solid; BORDER-RIGHT: black 1px solid\">\n<p><span style=\"FONT-STYLE: italic\"><object width=\"320\" height=\"265\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Pbs2oeAcG1E&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Pbs2oeAcG1E&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"320\" height=\"265\"><\/embed><\/object><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"FONT-STYLE: italic\">Nice that he changed his position, but it smacks of opportunism.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: bold\">I&#8217;m calling pandering.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Michael Bennet faces a <span style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: bold\">very<\/span> strong challenge from the Andrew Romanoff, who is coming at him from the left, so <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2009\/11\/22\/michael-bennet-ill-lose-m_n_366780.html\">Bennet&#8217;s statement that he would vote for healthcare reform even if it meant him losing the election<\/a> is an easy one to make. (see vid)<\/p>\n<p>The reality is that he was saying he might not vote for HCR for a long time, and now that he has a strong primary challenger, and he would be dead in the primary if he voted against it, suddenly he&#8217;s willing to bet his career on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nice that he changed his position, but it smacks of opportunism. I&#8217;m calling pandering. Michael Bennet faces a very strong challenge from the Andrew Romanoff, who is coming at him from the left, so Bennet&#8217;s statement that he would vote for healthcare reform even if it meant him losing the election is an easy one &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1000,1046],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-elections","category-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190467"}],"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=190467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}