{"id":8503,"date":"2010-02-05T09:15:33","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T14:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=8503"},"modified":"2010-02-05T09:15:33","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T14:15:33","slug":"try-to-count-the-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=8503","title":{"rendered":"Try To Count The Standards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dana Milbank sniffs down his patrician nose that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/02\/04\/AR2010020404009_pf.html\">Scott Brown, a Republican, is voting with his party:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The self-styled &#8220;independent&#8221; senator spent the rest of the session repeating GOP talking points about tax cuts for all, going &#8220;back to the drawing board&#8221; on health-care reform, and being &#8220;the 41st vote&#8221; to sustain filibusters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m wondering; did Dana Milbank wax similarly pithy when Al Franken finally made it to Washington and promptly handed his leash to Harry Reid?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dana Milbank sniffs down his patrician nose that Scott Brown, a Republican, is voting with his party: The self-styled &#8220;independent&#8221; senator spent the rest of the session repeating GOP talking points about tax cuts for all, going &#8220;back to the drawing board&#8221; on health-care reform, and being &#8220;the 41st vote&#8221; to sustain filibusters. I&#8217;m wondering; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8503","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=8503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8504,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8503\/revisions\/8504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}