{"id":190686,"date":"2009-11-03T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-03T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/11\/03\/wanker-of-the-day-21\/"},"modified":"2009-11-03T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-03T15:00:00","slug":"wanker-of-the-day-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/11\/03\/wanker-of-the-day-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Wanker of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blue Dog Jason Altmire, who is <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/66041-blue-dog-says-dem-losses-would-strengthen-centrists-position\">wishing for Democratic defeats in the elections<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Centrist Blue Dog Democrats might see their position strengthened if Democrats suffer broader losses Tuesday, one Blue Dog member suggested.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Jason Altmire (D-Pa.) argued that an election night rebuke for Democratic candidates across the nation could lead some in the party to rethink their plans on healthcare reform and other issues.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seriously, he needs to be primaried, and possibly needs a Green Party challenger in the general.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blue Dog Jason Altmire, who is wishing for Democratic defeats in the elections: Centrist Blue Dog Democrats might see their position strengthened if Democrats suffer broader losses Tuesday, one Blue Dog member suggested. Rep. Jason Altmire (D-Pa.) argued that an election night rebuke for Democratic candidates across the nation could lead some in the party &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1000,978,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections","category-politics","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190686"}],"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=190686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}