{"id":192147,"date":"2009-05-05T23:04:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-06T04:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/05\/05\/senate-democrats-define-loyal-democrat\/"},"modified":"2009-05-05T23:04:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-06T04:04:00","slug":"senate-democrats-define-loyal-democrat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/05\/05\/senate-democrats-define-loyal-democrat\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Democrats Define &#8220;Loyal Democrat&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pic60.picturetrail.com\/VOL1689\/10590113\/18913141\/303055364.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" width=\"375\" \/>Well, Arlen Specter <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/capitol-briefing\/2009\/05\/senate_democrats_deny_specter.html?hpid=topnews\">just got pwn3\u00d0 (owned) by the Democratic Senate caucus<\/a>, which denied him seniority.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t blame Specter for the <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2009\/05\/ummmmits-fracking-joke.html\">joke about wanting Coleman to win<\/a>, but the idea that he would get full credit for his seniority  rankled the people who were a few years behind him, and then on Sunday he said that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/30535930\/\">he would <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">not<\/span> be a loyal Democrat on MTP<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Notwithstanding Harry Reid&#8217;s reported promise that Specter would keep his seniority, the Democratic caucus had other plans on this.<\/p>\n<p>I am not sure who is more amused by this, Republithugs, or Democrats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, Arlen Specter just got pwn3\u00d0 (owned) by the Democratic Senate caucus, which denied him seniority. I don&#8217;t blame Specter for the joke about wanting Coleman to win, but the idea that he would get full credit for his seniority rankled the people who were a few years behind him, and then on Sunday he &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192147"}],"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=192147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}