{"id":5055,"date":"2012-02-15T16:17:51","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T22:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=2339"},"modified":"2012-02-15T16:17:51","modified_gmt":"2012-02-15T22:17:51","slug":"yankee-gop-senators-break-ranks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/15\/yankee-gop-senators-break-ranks\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankee GOP Senators Break Ranks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It used to be that there were always a few good Republicans to be found, even though the party as a whole represents the oppressors and yahoos 99% of the time. That&#8217;s hardly ever true today, except of course in the state of Maine:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Maine Republican Senators Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins, two of the Republican party\u2019s only moderate  voices left and who have broken with the party in the past on health related issues, voiced their support of President Obama\u2019s compromise on contraception. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.addictinginfo.org\/2012\/02\/14\/senators-snowe-and-collins-break-with-republicans-back-obamas-contraceptive-compromise\/\">Here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It used to be that there were always a few good Republicans to be found, even though the party as a whole represents the oppressors and yahoos 99% of the time. That&#8217;s hardly ever true today, except of course in the state of Maine: Maine Republican Senators Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins, two of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/15\/yankee-gop-senators-break-ranks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Yankee GOP Senators Break Ranks<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1jx","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5055"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}