{"id":194762,"date":"2008-08-20T23:06:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-21T04:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/20\/what-chris-bowers-said\/"},"modified":"2008-08-20T23:06:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-21T04:06:00","slug":"what-chris-bowers-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/20\/what-chris-bowers-said\/","title":{"rendered":"What Chris Bowers Said"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In reswsponse to the news that Lieberman would <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openleft.com\/showDiary.do;jsessionid=917320D1C3B50BD3FE64F16AA3D864A6?diaryId=7622\">speak at the Republican convention<\/a>, Mr. Bowers noted:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>I believe this is what some Senate Democrats were waiting for before deciding to strip Lieberman of his committee chair next year. I still remain skeptical that they will actually strip him of his committee chair, since it will demonstrate self-respect and a willingness to stand up to conservative Democrats. This just isn&#8217;t something you see much of from our representatives in Congress, particularly the latter.<a href=\"http:\/\/pic60.picturetrail.com\/VOL1689\/10590113\/20270734\/331171175.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/pic60.picturetrail.com\/VOL1689\/10590113\/20270734\/331171175.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I agree.  If I would argue that not only should he be stripped of his committee chairmanship, but of his seniority too.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, that would require a spine, an unlikely event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In reswsponse to the news that Lieberman would speak at the Republican convention, Mr. Bowers noted: I believe this is what some Senate Democrats were waiting for before deciding to strip Lieberman of his committee chair next year. I still remain skeptical that they will actually strip him of his committee chair, since it will &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1051,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-hypocrisy","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194762"}],"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=194762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}