{"id":780,"date":"2005-01-10T10:40:37","date_gmt":"2005-01-10T17:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=780"},"modified":"2005-01-10T10:40:37","modified_gmt":"2005-01-10T17:40:37","slug":"bidenize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2005\/01\/10\/bidenize\/","title":{"rendered":"Bidenize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"003152\"><\/a>Perhaps Joe Biden was simply bitter as he was watching his 1988 presidential bid go up in smokes due to scandal &#8212; he cheated on a law school exam.  But the Senator from the Great State of Delaware immediately did more than his fair share in turning the name &#8220;Bork&#8221; into a verb, meaning <i>&#8220;to make a nominee completely unacceptable and unpalatable.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Today, the state of politics has devolved to: <i>&#8220;I love you, but you&#8217;re not very candid so far.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>His vote in regards to confirmation of Alberto Gonzalez, in case you can&#8217;t tell, is &#8220;yes&#8221;.  The same goes for Lindsey Graham, the conservative Republican everybody is now watching for weird signs of dissension, who offered similar retorts in the hearing process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps Joe Biden was simply bitter as he was watching his 1988 presidential bid go up in smokes due to scandal &#8212; he cheated on a law school exam. But the Senator from the Great State of Delaware immediately did more than his fair share in turning the name &#8220;Bork&#8221; into a verb, meaning &#8220;to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780","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=780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}