{"id":199637,"date":"2007-07-09T21:21:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-10T02:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/07\/09\/maybe-just-maybe-senate-democrats-know-what-this-is\/"},"modified":"2007-07-09T21:21:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-10T02:21:00","slug":"maybe-just-maybe-senate-democrats-know-what-this-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/07\/09\/maybe-just-maybe-senate-democrats-know-what-this-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Maybe, Just Maybe, Senate Democrats Know What This is"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img408.imageshack.us\/img408\/6528\/whatisitds5.jpg\" \/><br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Perhaps this is no longer terra ingognita<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Check out the NY Times article, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/07\/08\/washington\/08reid.html?ex=1341547200&amp;en=056e8362e6629118&amp;ei=5090&amp;partner=rssuserland&amp;emc=rss\">Sensing a Shift, Reid Will Press for an Iraq Exit<\/a>, Harry Reid is saying that they haven&#8217;t done enough, and I think that he means it.<\/p>\n<p>I think that the so-called moderate Vichy wing of the Democratic party got one chance, and they lost.  After seeing the poll numbers plummet, the Democrats now realize the equation:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Knuckle under again, and the Republicans gain points.<\/li>\n<li>Take this to the mat, using everything at their disposal, and <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">they<\/span> gain points.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The country favors impeaching Cheney, and is close to favoring this with Bush.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, every time the Republicans senators vote for the war, they lose votes, and 2008 is <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">already<\/span> figuring to be a bad year for the Repuiblican senators who will be standing for re-election then.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size:180%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">Not One Step Back<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps this is no longer terra ingognita Check out the NY Times article, Sensing a Shift, Reid Will Press for an Iraq Exit, Harry Reid is saying that they haven&#8217;t done enough, and I think that he means it. I think that the so-called moderate Vichy wing of the Democratic party got one chance, and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1063,978,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-iraq","category-politics","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199637"}],"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=199637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}