{"id":430,"date":"2007-02-25T01:05:26","date_gmt":"2007-02-25T06:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=430"},"modified":"2007-02-25T16:54:44","modified_gmt":"2007-02-25T21:54:44","slug":"lieberman-threatens-to-switch-parties-over-war-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=430","title":{"rendered":"Lieberman Threatens to Switch Parties Over War Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This kind of moral courage in a politician gives me a small sliver of hope for the republic.<\/p>\n<p>From: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0207\/2865.html\">Politico.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/images.politico.com\/global\/070222_lieberman.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut told the Politico on Thursday that he has no immediate plans to switch parties but suggested that Democratic opposition to funding the war in Iraq might change his mind.<\/p>\n<p>Lieberman, a self-styled independent who caucuses with the Democrats, has been among the strongest supporters of the war and President Bush\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s plan to send an additional 21,500 combat troops into Iraq to help quell the violence there.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0207\/2865.html\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This kind of moral courage in a politician gives me a small sliver of hope for the republic. From: Politico.com Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut told the Politico on Thursday that he has no immediate plans to switch parties but suggested that Democratic opposition to funding the war in Iraq might change his mind. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}