{"id":1612,"date":"2005-05-02T00:35:14","date_gmt":"2005-05-02T04:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2005\/05\/wimp_check\/"},"modified":"2005-05-02T00:35:14","modified_gmt":"2005-05-02T04:35:14","slug":"wimp_check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/05\/wimp_check\/","title":{"rendered":"Wimp Check"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Meet the Press<\/i> <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/7698687\/\">funny<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>MR. RUSSERT:  Do you believe your Republican colleagues will support 40-percent reduction for retirees who make $90,000?<br \/>\nSEN. ALLEN:  I haven&#8217;t done a wimp check.  I don&#8217;t know.  All I can do is speak for myself.  And if we could work&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Heh.  I have run a quick check, and turned up with one from the Tennessee delegation.  Should be <i>whip<\/i>; a Freudian slip in the transcript.<br \/>\nBut here&#8217;s some intentional humor:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>MR. RUSSERT:  Let me turn to federal judges.  Court of Appeals:  Bill Clinton nominated 51 people to the Court of Appeals.  Thirty-five were confirmed. Sixteen were blocked by the Republicans by not giving hearings or not allowed out of committee.  George Bush nominated 52.  Thirty-five were confirmed because the Democrats threatened filibuster.  They don&#8217;t run the committees, so they can&#8217;t block it in committee.  What&#8217;s the difference?<br \/>\nSEN. ALLEN:  I think you&#8217;ll find on the Circuit Court judges that President Bush has the lowest percentage of Circuit Court judges&#8230;<br \/>\nMR. RUSSERT:  I just gave you the numbers.  Clinton nominated 51; 35 were confirmed.  Bush nominated 52; 35 were confirmed.  Those are the numbers.<br \/>\nSEN. ALLEN:  Well, I have different numbers than that.  The reality is that some of President Clinton&#8217;s nominees were blocked in committee.  They did not&#8211;and a lot of them were also brought up at the very end of his term.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>End of his term?  That justifies it?<br \/>\nIt was pretty comical watching Allen squirm in the face of his own hypocrisy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/05\/wimp_check\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Wimp Check\"><p>Meet the Press funny: MR. RUSSERT: Do you believe your Republican colleagues will support 40-percent reduction for retirees who make $90,000? SEN. ALLEN: I haven&#8217;t done a wimp check. I don&#8217;t know. All I can do is speak for myself. And if we could work&#8230; Heh. I have run a quick check, and turned up [&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-1612","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\/1612","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=1612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}