{"id":1597,"date":"2005-04-25T14:47:46","date_gmt":"2005-04-25T18:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2005\/04\/credit_where_cr\/"},"modified":"2005-04-25T14:47:46","modified_gmt":"2005-04-25T18:47:46","slug":"credit_where_cr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/04\/credit_where_cr\/","title":{"rendered":"Credit Where Credit Is Do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pockets of reason still remain in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/storyonly\/2005\/4\/25\/133951\/651\">U.S. Senate GOP caucus<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Apparently, there are a core of sane Republican Senators who realize the irreparable damage that would be caused by Frist&#8217;s going &#8220;nuclear.&#8221; These Republicans Senators appear to be Sens. McCain of Arizona, Chafee of RI, Snowe of Maine, Hagel of Nebraska, Collins of Maine, Sununu of New Hampshire, Smith of Oregon, Graham of South Carolina, Lugar of Indiana, Specter of Pennsylvania, Warner of Virginia.<br \/>\nAs Democrats (or most of us anyway), there can be no doubt that we disagree much more than we agree with the above listed Republican Senators. But it would be wrong of us not to acknowledge and applaud the integrity, love of country and political courage these Senators are exhibiting in this situation. The political pressure they are facing must be enormous.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, some of it being applied from our very own Senator Embarrassment (R-TN).  Kudos to these &#8220;moderates&#8221; for standing up on principle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/04\/credit_where_cr\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Credit Where Credit Is Do\"><p>Pockets of reason still remain in the U.S. Senate GOP caucus: Apparently, there are a core of sane Republican Senators who realize the irreparable damage that would be caused by Frist&#8217;s going &#8220;nuclear.&#8221; These Republicans Senators appear to be Sens. McCain of Arizona, Chafee of RI, Snowe of Maine, Hagel of Nebraska, Collins of Maine, [&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-1597","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\/1597","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=1597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}