{"id":1270,"date":"2004-11-04T09:59:38","date_gmt":"2004-11-04T14:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/11\/senate_minority_leader\/"},"modified":"2004-11-04T09:59:38","modified_gmt":"2004-11-04T14:59:38","slug":"senate_minority_leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/11\/senate_minority_leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Minority Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Word is that it will be <a title=\"Dodd clears path for Reid\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thehill.com\/news\/110404\/reid.aspx\">Senator Harry Reid<\/a>.<br \/>\nI agree with the wide-spread belief that the Democrats should select someone from a &#8220;safe&#8221; blue state who will have the latitude to be an outspoken advocate for Democratic policies.  There&#8217;s no question that Daschle was handicapped because he had to appeal to his conservative constituency.<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t know much about Reid&#8217;s leadership style or Nevada politics, but according to this criterion it sure seems like Senator Durbin or Dodd would be a better choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/11\/senate_minority_leader\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Senate Minority Leader\"><p>Word is that it will be Senator Harry Reid. I agree with the wide-spread belief that the Democrats should select someone from a &#8220;safe&#8221; blue state who will have the latitude to be an outspoken advocate for Democratic policies. There&#8217;s no question that Daschle was handicapped because he had to appeal to his conservative constituency. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1270","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}