{"id":198821,"date":"2007-10-07T23:28:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-08T04:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/07\/dem-leadership-wimps-out-on-us-attorney-scandal\/"},"modified":"2007-10-07T23:28:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-08T04:28:00","slug":"dem-leadership-wimps-out-on-us-attorney-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/07\/dem-leadership-wimps-out-on-us-attorney-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"Dem Leadership Wimps Out on US Attorney Scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bush and His Evil Minions<sup>&trade;<\/sup> are still stonewalling on the US Attorney scandal, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tpmmuckraker.com\/archives\/004339.php\">the house leadership is refusing to schedule a contempt vote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I know that they think that they are playing safe, but this sort of investigation is <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">precisely<\/span> why Democrats were elected in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Cowardice is a losing proposition, particularly for Democrats, where the Republicans have used this as a club to beat them for years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bush and His Evil Minions&trade; are still stonewalling on the US Attorney scandal, but the house leadership is refusing to schedule a contempt vote. I know that they think that they are playing safe, but this sort of investigation is precisely why Democrats were elected in 2006. Cowardice is a losing proposition, particularly for Democrats, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,972,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-justice","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198821"}],"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=198821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}