{"id":193794,"date":"2008-11-16T19:50:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-17T00:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/16\/joementum-update\/"},"modified":"2008-11-16T19:50:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-17T00:50:00","slug":"joementum-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/16\/joementum-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Joementum Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, now it appears that <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2008\/11\/16\/dorgan-lieberman\/\">Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND) has said that Lieberman&#8217;s behavior is unacceptable for a committee head<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>    As a chairman of one of our significant committees in the Senate, not just going off and supporting a presidential candidate of the other side but also criticizing the candidate on our side, and also involving himself in a couple of senate races on the other side. The question is, is that acceptable? The answer is no.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think the thing that may tip the Senate is his campaigning for Republicans in Senate races.<\/p>\n<p>While the only two Senators to <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">explicitly<\/span> call for his removal as chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, Dorgan, from North Fracking Dakota, comes pretty close to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, now it appears that Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND) has said that Lieberman&#8217;s behavior is unacceptable for a committee head: As a chairman of one of our significant committees in the Senate, not just going off and supporting a presidential candidate of the other side but also criticizing the candidate on our side, and also &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-193794","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\/193794"}],"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=193794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}