{"id":77,"date":"2006-11-15T12:44:35","date_gmt":"2006-11-15T18:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/2006\/11\/15\/oh-goody-no-really-im-thrilled\/"},"modified":"2006-11-15T12:44:35","modified_gmt":"2006-11-15T18:44:35","slug":"oh-goody-no-really-im-thrilled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=77","title":{"rendered":"Oh, Goody.  No, Really.  I&#8217;m Thrilled."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/2006\/11\/15\/D8LDJJ281.html\">Lott back as minority whip<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After an intense evening in which both men lobbied colleagues during floor votes, the Republican caucus elected Lott, a one-time whip and majority leader, by secret ballot. Lott will be the GOP&#8217;s second-in- command to Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, who was elected unanimously to be the Senate minority leader in the new Congress.<\/p>\n<p>With the midterm elections finished and Santorum, another candidate for the post, failing to win re-election, Lott cast himself as the more experienced candidate and the better choice for a job.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At least McConnell will replace Frist.\u00a0 That&#8217;ll be an improvment, right?<\/p>\n<p>Please?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lott back as minority whip: After an intense evening in which both men lobbied colleagues during floor votes, the Republican caucus elected Lott, a one-time whip and majority leader, by secret ballot. Lott will be the GOP&#8217;s second-in- command to Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, who was elected unanimously to be the Senate minority leader [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","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=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}