{"id":3645,"date":"2008-11-14T13:58:59","date_gmt":"2008-11-14T18:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3645"},"modified":"2008-11-14T14:46:57","modified_gmt":"2008-11-14T19:46:57","slug":"reasons-to-feel-good-youre-republican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3645","title":{"rendered":"Reasons To Feel Good You&#8217;re Republican"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not that I need to dig that hard, of course.\u00a0 But sometimes, things just <a href=\"http:\/\/minnesota.publicradio.org\/collections\/special\/columns\/loophole\/archive\/2008\/11\/rahm_emanuel_hot_or_not.shtml\">fall into your lap<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>From MPR&#8217;s &#8220;Loophole&#8221; blog, Jeff Horwich writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The other day at our weekly brainstorming meeting, a producer friend of ours mentioned that his female friends were all a-twitter about Rahm Emanuel (Obama&#8217;s new Chief of Staff)&#8230;Evidently the swooning has begun&#8230;[as in leftysphere articles] heralding &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/aspirationsofolyvil.wordpress.com\/2008\/11\/09\/allow-me-to-introduce-rahm-emanuel\/\" target=\"new\"><font color=\"#990000\">our sexy, angry, sexy, evil chief of staff designate.<\/font><\/a>&#8221; A writer on Gawker invokes the phrase &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/5081125\/rahm-emanuel-is-obamas-favorite-jew-to-mock\" target=\"new\"><font color=\"#990000\">the cute little guy<\/font><\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And someone has taken to Yahoo! Answers to pose the question &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/answers.yahoo.com\/question\/index?qid=20081107001620AAxCtWy\" target=\"new\"><font color=\"#990000\">Anyone else think Rahm Emanuel is sexy?<\/font><\/a>&#8221; The consensus, after 10 responses: Two snaps up.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have never been prouder of my party.<\/p>\n<p>Well, <em>almost <\/em>never.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I guess if Sarah Palin can be turned so instantly into a sex symbol, why not Rahm Emanuel?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Jeff Horwich is usually a very sharp guy.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know if caring for a newborn has warped his mind, or if it&#8217;s just working in the Taj Ma Kling day in and day out&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not that I need to dig that hard, of course.\u00a0 But sometimes, things just fall into your lap. From MPR&#8217;s &#8220;Loophole&#8221; blog, Jeff Horwich writes: The other day at our weekly brainstorming meeting, a producer friend of ours mentioned that his female friends were all a-twitter about Rahm Emanuel (Obama&#8217;s new Chief of Staff)&#8230;Evidently the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-men-and-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}