{"id":588,"date":"2006-08-21T10:37:31","date_gmt":"2006-08-21T15:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=588"},"modified":"2006-08-21T12:31:47","modified_gmt":"2006-08-21T17:31:47","slug":"hot-button-rod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=588","title":{"rendered":"Hot Button Rod"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I was checking out the Project Vote Smart site I also looked at Rod Grams page. Rod hasn&#8217;t sent in his answers yet either but I did check the link to his webpage to see if it&#8217;s changed since my last peek at it. It has.<\/p>\n<p>I was particularly unimpressed with his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gramsforcongress.com\/Oberstar%20Watch.htm\">bashing of Jim Oberstar on this page<\/a>. It shows exactly what&#8217;s wrong with the current Republicans and demonstrates how Rod could have a 97% &#8220;Republican&#8221; voting record.<\/p>\n<p>Jim Oberstar has done the fairly surprising thing of endorsing a dark horse candidate for Governor, the liberal State Senator Becky Lourey, who I also like. Grams makes sure to point out her pro-choice voting\u00c2\u00a0record and tars Oberstar through guilt by association.\u00c2\u00a0Supposedly by\u00c2\u00a0supporting Lourey despite her pro-choice voting Oberstar is helping a baby killer which apparently Grams would never do.<\/p>\n<p>Well, Oberstar is in the party which is primarily pro-choice. If he had nothing to do with any prochoicers he&#8217;d be pretty ineffective. By implication Rod is affirming the blacklisting and purging of pro-choice Republicans in his own party. <em>That would be folks like me!<\/em> I suspect Rod would have approved when Duluth&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snowbizz.com\/Diogenes\/NotEudora02\/sympathyformmurder.htm\">Justin Krych called Republicans like\u00c2\u00a0us worse mass murderers<\/a> than Stalin, Hitler and Pol Pot combined.<\/p>\n<p>Rod Grams is campaigning to bring a new more positive tone to Washington. Yeah sure!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I was checking out the Project Vote Smart site I also looked at Rod Grams page. Rod hasn&#8217;t sent in his answers yet&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,47,30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}