{"id":2184,"date":"2010-11-02T21:27:15","date_gmt":"2010-11-03T02:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=2184"},"modified":"2010-11-02T21:43:58","modified_gmt":"2010-11-03T02:43:58","slug":"biggest-weasel-winners-of-the-2010-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/02\/biggest-weasel-winners-of-the-2010-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Biggest Weasel Winners of the 2010 Election??"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who is the biggest weasel amongst the newly elected politicians?<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Cuomo, the new governor of New York, always does well in weasel ratings.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Blumenthal, who lied all over Connecticut to make people think he had actually fought in the Vietnam war, is CONN&#8217;s new U.S. Senator. <\/p>\n<p>What other newcomers deserve weasel accolades?<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the vast majority of weasel incumbents are being reelected &#8211; despite overwhelming public disapproval of Congress as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>Almost makes me wonder if the system is rigged. <\/p>\n<p>++++<br \/>\n** <strong>Tom Blanton <\/strong>of the Project for a New American Revolution has a great essay sketch of the nature of professional politicians <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnar.org\/portrait.htm\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who is the biggest weasel amongst the newly elected politicians? Andrew Cuomo, the new governor of New York, always does well in weasel ratings. Richard Blumenthal, who lied all over Connecticut to make people think he had actually fought in the Vietnam war, is CONN&#8217;s new U.S. Senator. What other newcomers deserve weasel accolades? Unfortunately, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[659,22,658,677],"class_list":{"0":"post-2184","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"tag-attention-deficit-democracy","8":"tag-congress","9":"tag-democracy"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Biggest Weasel Winners of the 2010 Election?? - James Bovard<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/02\/biggest-weasel-winners-of-the-2010-election\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Biggest Weasel Winners of the 2010 Election?? - James Bovard\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Who is the biggest weasel amongst the newly elected politicians? 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