{"id":582317,"date":"2010-05-27T14:14:58","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T18:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.78867"},"modified":"2010-05-27T17:35:57","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T21:35:57","slug":"all-about-joe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/582317","title":{"rendered":"All about Joe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Post politics blogger <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/right-now\/2010\/05\/lieberman_says_he_might_suppor.html\">David Weigel&nbsp;<\/a>provides some important&nbsp;context on today&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0510\/37870.html\">news<\/a>&#8221; that Joe Lieberman <em>might<\/em> endorse Republican Linda McMahon.<\/p>\n<p>Blumenthal and Lieberman have a long and complicated relationship, one that was severely strained by the 2006 Senate race. Blumenthal endorsed Lieberman early&nbsp;that year, but, like most of the rest of the state&#8217;s Democratic establishment, united behind&nbsp;Ned Lamont when he won the Democratic primary.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: The fact that Lieberman is toying with the idea of backing McMahon is suprising in another way as well. Lieberman&nbsp;co-sponsored the Family Entertainment Protection Act, which would have made it a federal crime to sell videos with &#8220;mature&#8221; content to minors. (The bill did not become law.) <\/p>\n<p>It makes you wonder what&nbsp;a family-values guy like him&nbsp;thinks of&nbsp;the push-the-envelope-on-sex-and-violence&nbsp;content&nbsp;that reigned during the WWE&#8217;s &#8220;Attitude Era.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Post politics blogger David Weigel&nbsp;provides some important&nbsp;context on today&#8217;s &#8220;news&#8221; that Joe Lieberman might endorse Republican Linda McMahon. Blumenthal and Lieberman have a long and complicated relationship, one that was severely strained by the 2006 Senate race. Blumenthal endorsed Lieberman early&nbsp;that year, but, like most of the rest of the state&#8217;s Democratic establishment, united [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4000,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-582317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582317","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\/4000"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}