{"id":858,"date":"2007-05-28T05:33:47","date_gmt":"2007-05-28T11:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/index.php\/2007\/05\/27\/when-toads-whine-about-storks-a-frog-smiles\/"},"modified":"2007-05-26T09:39:04","modified_gmt":"2007-05-26T15:39:04","slug":"when-toads-whine-about-storks-a-frog-smiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=858","title":{"rendered":"When Toads Whine About Storks, A Frog Smiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tim &#8220;Obie&#8221; O&#8217;Brien <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/562\/story\/1207618.html\">quotes Keith &#8220;Talking Hairdo&#8221; Olberman<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And you thought he was hard on Republicans<\/p>\n<p>MSNBC&#8217;s Keith Olbermann took a break from ripping President Bush to tell the Democrats who caved on the war funding bill just what he thought of their actions. &#8220;The Democratic leadership has, in sum, claimed a compromise with the administration, in which the only things truly compromised are the trust of the voters, the ethics of the Democrats and the lives of our brave, and doomed, friends and family in Iraq.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Doomed?<\/p>\n<p>Interesting to hear what my friends in the service think about <em>that<\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You, the men and women elected with the simplest of directions &#8212; stop the war &#8212; have traded your strength, your bargaining position and the uniform support of those who elected you for a handful of magic beans.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Because magic beans in the form of transitory and misleading poll numbers and a national tantrum for a mandate are all you have, Keef!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim &#8220;Obie&#8221; O&#8217;Brien quotes Keith &#8220;Talking Hairdo&#8221; Olberman: And you thought he was hard on Republicans MSNBC&#8217;s Keith Olbermann took a break from ripping President Bush to tell the Democrats who caved on the war funding bill just what he thought of their actions. &#8220;The Democratic leadership has, in sum, claimed a compromise with 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":[12,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858","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=858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}