{"id":258045,"date":"2010-02-01T04:30:53","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T09:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=64618"},"modified":"2010-02-01T04:30:53","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T09:30:53","slug":"pretty-bold-statement-to-make-in-a-permanently-tremulous-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/258045","title":{"rendered":"Pretty bold statement to make in a permanently tremulous voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_64624\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 160px\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-64624\" href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/2010\/02\/01\/pretty-bold-statement-to-make-in-a-permanently-tremulous-voice\/switzerland-world-economic-forum\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-64624\" title=\"Switzerland World Economic Forum\" src=\"http:\/\/static1.firedoglake.com\/1\/files\/2010\/02\/capt.vlm15601301707.switzerland_world_economic_forum_vlm156-150x83.jpg\" alt=\"The AP shows Susan Collins surrendering to foreigners at Davos this weekend\" width=\"150\" height=\"83\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The AP shows Susan Collins surrendering to foreigners at Davos this weekend<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Maine Republican Susan Collins is commonly known as as the <em>slightly more insane<\/em> of the two Maine Senators who are <em>slightly less insane<\/em> than the rest of the Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>But apparently she was determined to <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/78853-collins-this-administration-cannot-see-a-foreign-terrorist-right-in-front-of-them\">take an opportunity for ever-reliable GOP stupidity<\/a> in giving the response to Obama&#8217;s weekly address.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class='wbq'>\n<p>\u201cThe Obama administration appears to have a blind spot when it comes to the War on Terrorism,&#8221; she added. \u201cAnd, because of that blindness, this administration cannot see a foreign terrorist even when he stands right in front of them&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And on this point and in the wake of <em>Citizens United vs. FEC<\/em>, Ms. Collins may be right:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_64619\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 310px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-64619\" title=\"obama boehner cantor\" src=\"http:\/\/static1.firedoglake.com\/1\/files\/2010\/01\/obama-boehner-cantor-300x182.jpg\" alt=\"photo: REUTERS\/Larry Downing\" width=\"300\" height=\"182\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">photo: REUTERS\/Larry Downing<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/share-this\/share-icon-16x16.gif\" alt=\"Share This icon\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=64618&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"Email, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_64618\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"noindex nofollow\">&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AP shows Susan Collins surrendering to foreigners at Davos this weekend Maine Republican Susan Collins is commonly known as as the slightly more insane of the two Maine Senators who are slightly less insane than the rest of the Republicans. But apparently she was determined to take an opportunity for ever-reliable GOP stupidity in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258045","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}