{"id":659,"date":"2010-01-06T08:50:10","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T14:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=659"},"modified":"2010-01-06T08:50:10","modified_gmt":"2010-01-06T14:50:10","slug":"rats-leaving-a-sinking-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=659","title":{"rendered":"Rats leaving a sinking ship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0110\/31186.html\">Top Democrats head for the exits<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Given the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/mood_of_america\/congressional_performance\">falling popularity of Congress<\/a>, the fact that the health-care takeover that the Democrats are pushing through is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/current_events\/healthcare\/december_2009\/voter_attitudes_towards_health_care_plan_harden_58_opposed\">heavily opposed by voters<\/a>, and the fact that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/mood_of_america\/partisan_trends\">fewer people are self-identifying as Democrats<\/a> these days, I think that&#8217;s a reasonable characterization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top Democrats head for the exits. Given the falling popularity of Congress, the fact that the health-care takeover that the Democrats are pushing through is heavily opposed by voters, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}