{"id":63974,"date":"2017-08-02T05:00:55","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T10:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63974"},"modified":"2020-12-21T05:29:08","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T11:29:08","slug":"pointlessly-enigmatic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63974","title":{"rendered":"Pointlessly Enigmatic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/annatimmis\/2017\/07\/11\/democrats-wont-submit-blue-slips-to-judiciary-committee-stall-appointment-n2353456\">Senator Amy Klobuchar is withholding a blue slip<\/a> to block the Senate from taking up consideration of President Trump\u2019s nomination of Minnesota Supreme Court Justice David Stras to the 8<sup>th<\/sup> Circuit Court of Appeals.<\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>Yes, yes, Class Clown Al Franken is withholding his too, but we all know he\u2019s a big, fat idiot.\u00a0 Nobody cares what he does.<\/p>\n<p>But Amy was Hennepin County Attorney, she knows prominent Minnesota lawyers including some on her side of the aisle who would approve of Stras, she has a better reputation for being sensible than her \u2018colleague.\u2019 So what\u2019s her excuse?<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Following orders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Senator Amy Klobuchar is withholding a blue slip to block the Senate from taking up consideration of President Trump\u2019s nomination of Minnesota Supreme Court Justice David Stras to the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals. Why? Yes, yes, Class Clown Al Franken is withholding his too, but we all know [&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],"tags":[208],"class_list":["post-63974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","tag-a-klo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63974","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=63974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63975,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63974\/revisions\/63975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}