{"id":198410,"date":"2007-11-11T13:10:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-11T18:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/11\/11\/more-on-the-weird-bums-rush-on-the-mukasey-vote\/"},"modified":"2007-11-11T13:10:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-11T18:10:00","slug":"more-on-the-weird-bums-rush-on-the-mukasey-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/11\/11\/more-on-the-weird-bums-rush-on-the-mukasey-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"More on the Weird Bum&#8217;s Rush on the Mukasey Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You remember that the vote on Mukasey was rushed, about <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2007\/11\/weirdness-on-mukasey-vote.html\">1\/2 hour&#8217;s notice before the start of debate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Well, now we have a reason.  It appears that <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmelectioncentral.com\/2007\/11\/reid_allowed_vote_on_mukasey_in_exchange_for_military_funding_bill.php\">Reid cut a deal with teh Republicans to allow for a military funding bill to proceed <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">without<\/span> money for Iraq and Afghanistan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I guess that they think that this will provide cover while trying to get the troops out of Iraq.  It&#8217;s won&#8217;t.  With George W. Bush at 26%, <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2007\/11\/worse-than-nixon.html\">worse than Nixon<\/a>, the Bush dogs are <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">still<\/span> going to fold like wet broccoli when he makes vague noises about &#8220;not supporting the troops&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>They still don&#8217;t get it.  Any opposition to Bush on <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">any<\/span> issue is both the right thing to do <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">and<\/span> a political win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You remember that the vote on Mukasey was rushed, about 1\/2 hour&#8217;s notice before the start of debate. Well, now we have a reason. It appears that Reid cut a deal with teh Republicans to allow for a military funding bill to proceed without money for Iraq and Afghanistan. I guess that they think that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1063,972,978,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-iraq","category-justice","category-politics","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198410"}],"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=198410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}