{"id":2586,"date":"2007-09-21T22:45:55","date_gmt":"2007-09-22T05:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2007\/09\/21\/todays-democratic-yahoos\/"},"modified":"2007-09-21T22:45:55","modified_gmt":"2007-09-22T05:45:55","slug":"todays-democratic-yahoos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2007\/09\/21\/todays-democratic-yahoos\/","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s Democratic Yahoos."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think it is worthwhile to look at the names of the members of the Senate Democratic caucus who voted to condemn a political advertisement.\u00c2\u00a0 This might make some sort of sense if this were a Republican Congress.\u00c2\u00a0 But, then again, A new Gallup poll came out.\u00c2\u00a0 Congress&#8217;s approval rating has shot up to 24 percent.\u00c2\u00a0 Parcing it by party, the Republicans give a 37 percent approval for Congress; the Democrats have a 23 percent approval rating.\u00c2\u00a0 Which makes some sort of sense, since\u00c2\u00a0 &#8212; for example &#8212; you see the Congress today throwing red meat to the Republican base by condemning a liberal organization that donates money to the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n<p>And, of course, the list goes on to all 49 Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>Baucus (D-MT)<br \/>\nBayh (D-IN)<\/p>\n<p>Cardin (D-MD)<br \/>\nCarper (D-DE)<br \/>\nCasey (D-PA)<\/p>\n<p>Conrad (D-ND)<\/p>\n<p>Dorgan (D-ND)<\/p>\n<p>Feinstein (D-CA)<\/p>\n<p>Johnson (D-SD)<br \/>\nKlobuchar (D-MN)<br \/>\nKohl (D-WI)<\/p>\n<p>Landrieu (D-LA)<br \/>\nLeahy (D-VT)<br \/>\nLieberman (ID-CT)<br \/>\nLincoln (D-AR)<\/p>\n<p>Mikulski (D-MD)<\/p>\n<p>Nelson (D-FL)<br \/>\nNelson (D-NE)<br \/>\nPryor (D-AR)<\/p>\n<p>Salazar (D-CO)<\/p>\n<p>Tester (D-MT)<\/p>\n<p>Webb (D-VA)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think it is worthwhile to look at the names of the members of the Senate Democratic caucus who voted to condemn a political advertisement.\u00c2\u00a0 This might make some sort of sense if this were a Republican Congress.\u00c2\u00a0 But, then again, A new Gallup poll came out.\u00c2\u00a0 Congress&#8217;s approval rating has shot up to 24 [&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-2586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2586","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=2586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}