{"id":1387,"date":"2004-10-12T14:41:20","date_gmt":"2004-10-12T21:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/big-frightening-liberal\/"},"modified":"2004-10-12T14:41:20","modified_gmt":"2004-10-12T21:41:20","slug":"big-frightening-liberal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/big-frightening-liberal\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Frightening Liberal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"The Daily Howler\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyhowler.com\/\">The Daily Howler<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>It&#8217;s clear that Bush is now moving to paint Kerry as a Big Frightening Liberal.<\/b> Will Bush dare to say, one more time, that the National Journal named Kerry the senate&#8217;s top liberal? Again, for those who care to know, here is the Journal&#8217;s list of the most liberal senators, based on lifetime voting:<\/p>\n<p>    National Journal: Most liberal senators, lifetime voting<br \/>\n    1. Mark Dayton, D-Minn.<br \/>\n    2. Paul Sarbanes, D-Md.<br \/>\n    3. Jack Reed, D-R.I.<br \/>\n    4. Jon Corzine, D-N.J.<br \/>\n    5. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.<br \/>\n    6. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif.<br \/>\n    7. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa<br \/>\n    8. Richard Durbin, D-Ill.<br \/>\n    9. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J.<br \/>\n    10. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt<\/p>\n<p><b>In Debate II, Bush stated, two separate times, that the Journal named Kerry &#8220;the most liberal senator of all.&#8221;<\/b> Will he make this tortured claim again? &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Yes, liberal bias is easy to spot\u2014if you\u2019re determined to find it. And ever since <b>Nixon<\/b> helped establish the concept, Republicans have used the iconic complaint as a way to explain away every bad story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily Howler It&#8217;s clear that Bush is now moving to paint Kerry as a Big Frightening Liberal. Will Bush dare to say, one more time, that the National Journal named Kerry the senate&#8217;s top liberal? Again, for those who care to know, here is the Journal&#8217;s list of the most liberal senators, based on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/big-frightening-liberal\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Big Frightening Liberal<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}