{"id":11106,"date":"2013-01-31T10:19:40","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T17:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=11106"},"modified":"2013-01-31T10:19:40","modified_gmt":"2013-01-31T17:19:40","slug":"the-three-senators-not-confirming-kerry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2013\/01\/31\/the-three-senators-not-confirming-kerry\/","title":{"rendered":"The three Senators not confirming Kerry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looking over the Senate votes on the confirmation of John Kerry as Secretary of State, and more specifically to the &#8220;no&#8221; votes on a matter that&#8230; well&#8230; I do see in comments section to news items saying &#8220;Of course he&#8217;ll be confirmed. \u00c2\u00a0SKULL AND BONES!&#8221; &#8212; the first time we hear of skull and bones for a while&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.senate.gov\/legislative\/LIS\/roll_call_lists\/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=113&amp;session=1&amp;vote=00005\">Voting no<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Cornyn, Republican of Texas. \u00c2\u00a0Cruz, Republican of Texas. \u00c2\u00a0Inhofe, Republican of Oklahoma.<\/p>\n<p>Explaining this one&#8230; Inhofe is against Kerry on Climate Change policy, because he&#8217;s&#8230; Inhofe. \u00c2\u00a0The two Texans&#8217; no vote a<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaljournal.com\/blogs\/hotlineoncall\/2013\/01\/the-politics-of-john-cornyn-s-no-vote-on-kerry-30\">ppears to be about a fight to stake out the claim of Texas as the most Insane State in the Union<\/a>. \u00c2\u00a0Cornyn has a primary challenge possibility coming up, and needs to stake out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/blogs\/burkablog\/?p=14893\">a claim as being next to Cruz<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>None of them came out against the Yale Fraternity of Skull and Bones, suggesting that they would have accepted George W Bush for the position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking over the Senate votes on the confirmation of John Kerry as Secretary of State, and more specifically to the &#8220;no&#8221; votes on a matter that&#8230; well&#8230; I do see in comments section to news items saying &#8220;Of course he&#8217;ll be confirmed. \u00c2\u00a0SKULL AND BONES!&#8221; &#8212; the first time we hear of skull and bones [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11107,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11106\/revisions\/11107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}