{"id":199277,"date":"2007-08-17T05:04:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-17T10:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/08\/17\/susan-collins-feeling-the-heat-of-her-war-support\/"},"modified":"2007-08-17T05:04:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-17T10:04:00","slug":"susan-collins-feeling-the-heat-of-her-war-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/08\/17\/susan-collins-feeling-the-heat-of-her-war-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Susan Collins Feeling the Heat of Her War Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that the good Senator Collins <a href=\"http:\/\/pressherald.mainetoday.com\/story.php?id=127279&amp;ac=PHnws\">is objecting to the Tom Allen campaign sending a staffer to follow her public appearances and video what she says<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Standard operating procedure for campaigns these days, and a great way of showing how a candidate talks out of both sides of their mouth.<\/p>\n<p>Collins&#8217; problem is that she&#8217;s been Bush&#8217;s bitch.  When push comes to shove, she&#8217;s never voted against him.  Her &#8220;bipartisanship&#8221; consists of joint pressers with Lieberman.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s how she guarantees no real opposition to her in the primaries (all of Bush&#8217;s support is from the party faithful), but she can&#8217;t go and talk to small wingnut audiences and tell them what a loyal Bushie she is if those speeches end up on Youtube.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that the good Senator Collins is objecting to the Tom Allen campaign sending a staffer to follow her public appearances and video what she says. Standard operating procedure for campaigns these days, and a great way of showing how a candidate talks out of both sides of their mouth. Collins&#8217; problem is 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":[1064,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199277"}],"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=199277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}