{"id":195208,"date":"2008-07-23T17:21:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-23T22:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/23\/what-member-of-rodentia-scrambles-to-leave-a-sinking-ship\/"},"modified":"2008-07-23T17:21:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-23T22:21:00","slug":"what-member-of-rodentia-scrambles-to-leave-a-sinking-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/23\/what-member-of-rodentia-scrambles-to-leave-a-sinking-ship\/","title":{"rendered":"What Member of Rodentia Scrambles to Leave a Sinking Ship?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ah&#8230;.Yes&#8230;Republicans&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>Senate Republican leaders are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0708\/11923.html\">now allowing senators to vote as they wish in an attempt to keep seat losses to a minimum in November<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We also have reports that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601070&amp;sid=a1QaUnot5FTs&amp;refer=home\">Republicans see Bush as a &#8220;jinx&#8221;<\/a>, and that they are trying to avoid the party brand.<\/p>\n<p>No wonder they <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/leading-the-news\/white-house-fundraisers-will-remain-closed-to-press-2008-07-23.html\">aren&#8217;t letting press into Bush fund raisers<\/a>.  They are afraid of pictures of the candidate and Bush together showing up in the press.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe Republicans should campaign with a more popular member of the Bush administration, like Dick Cheney&#8230;.I think that I just threw up in my mouth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah&#8230;.Yes&#8230;Republicans&#8230;.. Senate Republican leaders are now allowing senators to vote as they wish in an attempt to keep seat losses to a minimum in November. We also have reports that Republicans see Bush as a &#8220;jinx&#8221;, and that they are trying to avoid the party brand. No wonder they aren&#8217;t letting press into Bush fund &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1094,998,1000,1064],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-finance","category-congress","category-elections","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195208"}],"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=195208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}