{"id":7990,"date":"2011-04-25T09:23:42","date_gmt":"2011-04-25T16:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=7990"},"modified":"2011-04-25T09:23:42","modified_gmt":"2011-04-25T16:23:42","slug":"mccain-lieberman-graham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2011\/04\/25\/mccain-lieberman-graham\/","title":{"rendered":"McCain Lieberman Graham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hm.\u00c2\u00a0 A real dream team.\u00c2\u00a0 You want to know the first thing that pops up when you type &#8220;Lindsey Graham&#8221; &#8220;Joseph Lieberman&#8221; and &#8220;John McCain&#8221; into google?\u00c2\u00a0 A Wall Street editorial from 2009.<\/p>\n<h3><em><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052970203440104574404753110979442.html\">By LINDSEY GRAHAM, JOSEPH I. LIEBERMAN AND JOHN MCCAIN<\/a><\/em><br \/>\n<em>Growing numbers of Americans are starting to doubt whether we should have troops in Afghanistan and whether the war there is even winnable.<br \/>\nWe are confident that not only is it winnable, but that we have no choice. We must prevail in Afghanistan.<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>It seemed that every time I looked up, the three of them were running around in Iraq. Any idea of how many joint Wall Street editorials they&#8217;ve written about Iraq.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/articles\/263694\/senators-sway-andrew-c-mccarthy\">Yes.\u00c2\u00a0 And&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>John McCain, Joseph Lieberman, and Lindsey Graham are the Senate\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s most energetic proponents of sinking the nation ever deeper into the Libyan morass. In a joint interview on Fox last weekend, Senators McCain (R., Ariz.) and Lieberman (I., Conn.) were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/articles\/263361\/middle-east-howlers-andrew-c-mccarthy\">breathless<\/a> in their rendering of the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153freedom fighters\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Arab Spring\u00e2\u20ac\u009d of spontaneous \u00e2\u20ac\u0153democracy.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Friday they upped the ante with a Wall Street Journal <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703806304576233112828325424.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop\">op-ed<\/a>, rehearsing yet again what an incorrigible thug Qaddafi is and how \u00e2\u20ac\u0153we cannot allow [him] to consolidate his grip\u00e2\u20ac\u009d on parts of Libya that he still controls.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I have a thought.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe the Wall Street Journal can just keep the op-ed article handy.\u00c2\u00a0 Do a mad-libs reprinting whenever Lieberman, McCain, and Graham call &#8212; it&#8217;d save the three from having to pool together to write something anew.<em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hm.\u00c2\u00a0 A real dream team.\u00c2\u00a0 You want to know the first thing that pops up when you type &#8220;Lindsey Graham&#8221; &#8220;Joseph Lieberman&#8221; and &#8220;John McCain&#8221; into google?\u00c2\u00a0 A Wall Street editorial from 2009. By LINDSEY GRAHAM, JOSEPH I. LIEBERMAN AND JOHN MCCAIN Growing numbers of Americans are starting to doubt whether we should have troops [&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-7990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7990","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=7990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7991,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7990\/revisions\/7991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}