{"id":679544,"date":"2010-03-02T04:30:03","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T09:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=69997"},"modified":"2010-03-02T04:30:03","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T09:30:03","slug":"a-con-queso-dip-of-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/679544","title":{"rendered":"A Con Queso Dip of Fail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Villages&#8217; self-appointed enforcer returns to the Twitterati-set after a two week layoff, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/02\/18\/AR2010021805078.html?hpid=news-col-blog\">off-putting self-embarassment<\/a>, to do a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sally_Quinn\">a touchdown dance<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/2010\/03\/02\/a-con-queso-dip-of-fail\/sally-quinn\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-69998\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static1.firedoglake.com\/1\/files\/2010\/03\/sally-quinn-300x146.png?resize=300%2C146\" alt=\"\" title=\"sally quinn\" width=\"300\" height=\"146\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-69998\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Because SOCIAL secretary of the District is her job, just ask her&#8230;or just wait and she&#8217;ll tell you.<\/p>\n<p>And guess who wants to go to her parties and toss his keys in the bowl with the likes of Dana Milbank and Richard Cohen?  No, not Harold Ford &#8212; but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eschatonblog.com\/2010\/03\/mickey-kaus-for-senate.html\">the man<\/a> who allegedly <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.laweekly.com\/ladaily\/city-news\/mickey-kaus-for-senate\/\">does far more than stare at goats<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class='wbq'>\n<p>Mickey Kaus took out papers filed to run for U.S. Senate in California, he told LA Weekly. The Venice resident said he&#8217;ll run this year against Barbara Boxer for her seat.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And before you stop laughing&#8230;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_70003\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 160px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/2010\/03\/02\/a-con-queso-dip-of-fail\/kaus-and-barone\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-70003\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static1.firedoglake.com\/1\/files\/2010\/03\/kaus-and-barone-150x112.jpg?resize=150%2C112\" alt=\"\" title=\"kaus and barone\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-70003\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mickey Kaus draws Michael Barone&#8217;s car keys<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div class='wbq'>\n<p>\nAnd in his Kausfiles blog, Kaus has quite the widely-read bully pulpit, with an estimated readership of as many as 30,000 people daily.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh, yes, the all powerful 30,000 visitors a day. Surely, he cannot be stopped!<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\n(actual pic from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/frumforum\/3215618401\/\">here<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"16\" width=\"16\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/firedoglake.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/share-this\/share-icon-16x16.gif?resize=16%2C16\" alt=\"Share This icon\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=69997&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"Email, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_69997\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"noindex nofollow\">&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Villages&#8217; self-appointed enforcer returns to the Twitterati-set after a two week layoff, and off-putting self-embarassment, to do a a touchdown dance: Because SOCIAL secretary of the District is her job, just ask her&#8230;or just wait and she&#8217;ll tell you. And guess who wants to go to her parties and toss his keys in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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-679544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2QMo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679544","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\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}