{"id":2336,"date":"2006-01-26T13:56:26","date_gmt":"2006-01-26T17:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=2336"},"modified":"2006-01-26T13:56:26","modified_gmt":"2006-01-26T17:56:26","slug":"byrd-comes-out-in-support-of-alito","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=2336","title":{"rendered":"Byrd Comes Out in Support of Alito&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Byrd falls for the old &#8220;Handwritten letter from a &#8216;Democrat'&#8221; Ploy and <a href=\"http:\/\/byrd.senate.gov\/newsroom\/news_jan\/alito.html\">announces<\/a> he&#8217;ll support Alito. Yes, Senator, we get many of those same &#8220;I&#8217;m a Democrat, but I can&#8217;t abide what my party is doing&#8221; notes as well. Constantly. One of the most tired tricks in the Troll Playbook. Sorry to see you fall for it.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, Pam from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.TheDemocraticDaily.com\">The Democratic Daily<\/a>, is hearing from her inside sources that Kerry will lead a filibuster. We can&#8217;t confirm anything of the sort, nor can we deny, but Pam seems to feel strongly about it, so we pass on <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.thedemocraticdaily.com\/?p=1759.\">this link to her report<\/a> with that caveat. Don&#8217;t know if Byrd&#8217;s announcement, which we believe was released <i>after<\/i> her post, will have any effect on that or not.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE:<\/b> Pam updates her item to include a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/POLITICS\/01\/26\/alito\/index.html\">CNN&#8217;s report<\/a>, posted just minutes ago, that Kerry &#8220;will attempt a filibuster&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Byrd falls for the old &#8220;Handwritten letter from a &#8216;Democrat&#8217;&#8221; Ploy and announces he&#8217;ll support Alito. Yes, Senator, we get many of those same &#8220;I&#8217;m a Democrat, but I can&#8217;t abide what my party is doing&#8221; notes as well. Constantly. One of the most tired tricks in the Troll Playbook. Sorry to see you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2336"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=2336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}