{"id":2391,"date":"2008-12-10T14:50:36","date_gmt":"2008-12-10T22:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2008\/12\/10\/and-i-thought-republicans-were-dumb\/"},"modified":"2008-12-10T14:50:36","modified_gmt":"2008-12-10T22:50:36","slug":"and-i-thought-republicans-were-dumb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2008\/12\/10\/and-i-thought-republicans-were-dumb\/","title":{"rendered":"And I Thought Republicans Were Dumb . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/bo.jpg' alt='bo.jpg' class='right' \/>Egregiously stolen from <a href=\"http:\/\/patriotpost.us\/\">The Patriot Post<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Upstanding governor: &#8220;I&#8217;m going to keep [Obama&#8217;s] Senate option for me a real possibility, you know, and therefore I can drive a hard bargain. You hear what I&#8217;m saying? And if I don&#8217;t get what I want and I&#8217;m not satisfied with it, then I&#8217;ll just take the Senate seat myself. &#8230;[The seat] is a f***ing valuable thing &#8212; you just don&#8217;t give it away for nothing.&#8221; &#8212; Illinois Democrat Gov. Rod Blagojevich in secretly taped phone conversations about filling Obama&#8217;s Senate seat<\/p>\n<p>Bad idea: &#8220;I should say if anybody wants to tape my conversations, go right ahead, feel free to do it. I appreciate anybody who wants to tape me openly and notoriously, and those who feel like they want to sneakily and wear taping devices, I would remind them that it kind of smells like Nixon and Watergate.&#8221; &#8212; Rod Blagojevich before his arrest<\/p>\n<p>Deny everything: &#8220;I had no contact with the governor or his office and so we were not, I was not aware of what was happening.&#8221; &#8212; Barack Obama, friend and ally of Gov. Blagojevich<\/p>\n<p>Somebody&#8217;s lying: &#8220;I know he&#8217;s talked to the governor and there are a whole range of names many of which have surfaced, and I think he has a fondness for a lot of them.&#8221; &#8212; Obama adviser David Axelrod on 23 November (Axelrod now says he was &#8220;mistaken&#8221; when he said that)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egregiously stolen from The Patriot Post: Upstanding governor: &#8220;I&#8217;m going to keep [Obama&#8217;s] Senate option for me a real possibility, you know, and therefore I can&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-degenerates","category-whacko-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}