{"id":2696,"date":"2007-11-27T22:56:49","date_gmt":"2007-11-28T05:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2007\/11\/27\/flow-chart-for-my-reaction-to-trent-lott-news\/"},"modified":"2007-11-27T22:56:49","modified_gmt":"2007-11-28T05:56:49","slug":"flow-chart-for-my-reaction-to-trent-lott-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2007\/11\/27\/flow-chart-for-my-reaction-to-trent-lott-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Flow-chart for my reaction to Trent Lott news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey.\u00c2\u00a0 What?<\/p>\n<p>I always wanted to see him with his hair-piece off.<\/p>\n<p>Why would he quit at this insane time? \u00c2\u00a0 Oh, that&#8217; s interesting.\u00c2\u00a0 New Ethics rules comes into effect at the end of that year which force a two year wait between Congress critters and a job as a lobbyist.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; Hm.\u00c2\u00a0 Does this mean that a Democrat might win a Senate seat in Mississippi, and we can expand the number of Republican senate seats up for re-election to 23?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, damned.\u00c2\u00a0 Republican Governor appoints replacement.\u00c2\u00a0 New Quasi-incumbent likely win.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; Hm.\u00c2\u00a0 Rumor of involvement in Alaskan oil scandal that is dragging down Senator Stevens.\u00c2\u00a0 Oh, whatever<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; Hey, wait!\u00c2\u00a0 Rumor of Gay Hooker!<\/p>\n<p>Okay now this is getting stupid.<\/p>\n<p>Oh Strom Thurmond, where are you now?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey.\u00c2\u00a0 What? I always wanted to see him with his hair-piece off. Why would he quit at this insane time? \u00c2\u00a0 Oh, that&#8217; s interesting.\u00c2\u00a0 New Ethics rules comes into effect at the end of that year which force a two year wait between Congress critters and a job as a lobbyist. &#8230; Hm.\u00c2\u00a0 Does [&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-2696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2696","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=2696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}