{"id":191373,"date":"2009-08-27T13:14:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-27T18:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/08\/27\/republicans-can-go-cheney-themselves\/"},"modified":"2009-08-27T13:14:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-27T18:14:00","slug":"republicans-can-go-cheney-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/08\/27\/republicans-can-go-cheney-themselves\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Can Go Cheney Themselves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that the bubble headed bleach blond of DC political coverage, Politico, is reporting that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0809\/26514.html\">&#8220;key conservatives&#8221; are warning that liberals may inappropriately politicize Senator Kennedy&#8217;s death<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They call it the, &#8220;Wellstone Effect,&#8221; which I guess means that a legitimate outpouring of grief over the death of a hero will be used by the America hating right wing, and a complicit press, to create the illusion that real human grief is somehow a sinister conspiracy.<\/p>\n<p>As to those right wingers who are somehow all upset that it appears that Kennedy&#8217;s name will now go on the healthcare reform bill, let me say this:  Teddy Kennedy was at his worst better than your best at their best: Ronald Reagan was not fit to shine the sole of Ted Kennedy&#8217;s shoes with his tongue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that the bubble headed bleach blond of DC political coverage, Politico, is reporting that &#8220;key conservatives&#8221; are warning that liberals may inappropriately politicize Senator Kennedy&#8217;s death. They call it the, &#8220;Wellstone Effect,&#8221; which I guess means that a legitimate outpouring of grief over the death of a hero will be used by the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[969,974,978,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evil","category-hack-journalism","category-politics","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191373"}],"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=191373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}