{"id":621,"date":"2006-08-26T17:05:52","date_gmt":"2006-08-26T22:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=621"},"modified":"2006-12-21T09:39:16","modified_gmt":"2006-12-21T14:39:16","slug":"sheep-and-wolves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=621","title":{"rendered":"Sheep and Wolves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I explained the difference between Jim Oberstar and Rod Grams to an interviewer today:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rod Grams is a wolf dressed in sheep&#8217;s clothing and Jim Oberstar is a sheep dressed in Wolf&#8217;s clothing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rod Grams was a rabidly, partisan, Republican wolf with a 97% Republican voting record who voted to remove\u00c2\u00a0a Democratic President for the flimsiest of reasons. Now he&#8217;s appealing to voters\u00c2\u00a0like a sheep upset with the nastiness in Congress that he helped start.<\/p>\n<p>Jim Oberstar wants voters to think that he is a tough wolf looking out after their interests when in fact he&#8217;s been a back bencher for 32 years. In that time he&#8217;s never said boo in Congressional debates and he has been quick to do the bidding of whoever is in charge <em><strong>even at the expense of the Democratic Party<\/strong><\/em> as when he joined Tom DeLay to pass the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snowbizz.com\/Diogenes\/05Eudorabackup\/TerrysLaw.htm\">Terri&#8217;s Law<\/a> to whip up partisan Republicans around the nation and put Democrats on the defensive.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I explained the difference between Jim Oberstar and Rod Grams to an interviewer today: Rod Grams is a wolf dressed in sheep&#8217;s clothing and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,56,47,30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621"}],"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=621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}