{"id":642459,"date":"2010-01-25T17:48:51","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T22:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=74733"},"modified":"2010-01-25T17:48:51","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T22:48:51","slug":"lieberman-for-linda-mcmahon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/642459","title":{"rendered":"Lieberman for Linda McMahon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ThinkProgress spots Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) mulling a jump to the Republican Party in this interview. I&#8217;m struck by another part of the interview, in which Lieberman <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TB3EhwZCbRg\">entertains the idea<\/a> of opposing the phenomenally popular state attorney general, Richard Blumenthal, who&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/75901-blumenthal-trounces-gop-opponents-in-early-ct-poll-simmons-fires-back\">leading by better than 2-1 margins<\/a> in the race for the Chris Dodd&#8217;s open Senate seat. The problem, says Lieberman, is that Blumenthal supported Ned Lamont in 2006, while possible GOP candidate Linda McMahon &#8220;was good enough to support me financially and politically.&#8221;<span id=\"more-74733\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/TB3EhwZCbRg\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ThinkProgress spots Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) mulling a jump to the Republican Party in this interview. I&#8217;m struck by another part of the interview, in which Lieberman entertains the idea of opposing the phenomenally popular state attorney general, Richard Blumenthal, who&#8217;s leading by better than 2-1 margins in the race for the Chris Dodd&#8217;s open [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2761,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-642459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2H8f","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2761"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}