{"id":101552,"date":"2009-12-17T22:01:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-18T03:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587346.post-7147307139105782350"},"modified":"2009-12-17T22:39:23","modified_gmt":"2009-12-18T03:39:23","slug":"lieberman-explained-hes-a-lot-like-bush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/101552","title":{"rendered":"Lieberman explained: He&#8217;s a lot like Bush"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>This explains a lot.<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/12\/17\/opinion\/17collins.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss\"><\/a><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/12\/17\/opinion\/17collins.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss\">Gail Collins &#8211; Sorry, Senator Kerry &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/12\/17\/opinion\/17collins.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss\"><\/a>&#8230;  my favorite explanation comes from Jonathan Chait of The New Republic, who theorized that Lieberman was able to go from Guy Who Wants to Expand Medicare to Guy Who Would Rather Kill Health Care Than Expand Medicare because he \u201cisn\u2019t actually all that smart.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>It\u2019s certainly easier to leap from one position to its total opposite if you never understood your original stance in the first place, and I am thinking Chait\u2019s theory could get some traction. \u201cWhen I sat next to him in the State Senate, he always surprised me by how little he\u2019d learned about the bill at the time of the vote,\u201d said Bill Curry, a former Connecticut comptroller and Democratic gubernatorial nominee.&#8221;&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div>Lieberman is a dull man who&#8217;s not that interested in understanding the world. He&#8217;s dull enough to be profoundly corrupted by his insurance company donors, yet still imagine that he&#8217;s an honest man.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>A lot like George Bush Jr.<\/div>\n<div>&#8212;<br \/><small><a href=\"feed:\/\/www.google.com\/reader\/public\/atom\/user\/06457543619879090746\/state\/com.google\/broadcast\">My Google Reader Shared items (feed)<\/a><\/small><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/5587346-7147307139105782350?l=notes.kateva.org' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This explains a lot. Gail Collins &#8211; Sorry, Senator Kerry &#8211; NYTimes.com &#8230; my favorite explanation comes from Jonathan Chait of The New Republic, who theorized that Lieberman was able to go from Guy Who Wants to Expand Medicare to Guy Who Would Rather Kill Health Care Than Expand Medicare because he \u201cisn\u2019t actually all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":711,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/711"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}