{"id":191871,"date":"2009-06-11T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-11T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/06\/11\/new-york-governor-david-paterson-is-the-stupidest-politician-ever\/"},"modified":"2009-06-11T17:30:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-11T22:30:00","slug":"new-york-governor-david-paterson-is-the-stupidest-politician-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/06\/11\/new-york-governor-david-paterson-is-the-stupidest-politician-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Governor David Paterson is the Stupidest Politician Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a result of the Republican takeover of the state Senate in New York, legislation has come to a stand still, and the <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">New York Times<\/span> quoted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/06\/11\/nyregion\/11albany.html?em\">Governor Paterson exhorting people to get along and get work done<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>The governor also made one of the more unusual pleas for sanity, imploring lawmakers to \u201c<span style=\"font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: bold;\">think of the lobbyists<\/span>,\u201d explaining that they had worked hard \u201cto persuade legislative leaders and legislators of issues.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Great googly moogly, this guy could lose an election to Kathleen Kennedy Townsend.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Think of the lobbyists<\/span>?  <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">W<\/span>hiskey <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">T<\/span>ango <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">F<\/span>oxtrot?<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, if he is the Democratic nominee for governor in 2010, he is going to get done like a drunk alterboy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a result of the Republican takeover of the state Senate in New York, legislation has come to a stand still, and the New York Times quoted Governor Paterson exhorting people to get along and get work done: The governor also made one of the more unusual pleas for sanity, imploring lawmakers to \u201cthink of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[978,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191871"}],"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=191871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}