{"id":4722,"date":"2008-08-28T12:07:50","date_gmt":"2008-08-28T19:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/08\/28\/tim-pawlenty-clears-his-friday-schedule\/"},"modified":"2008-08-28T12:07:50","modified_gmt":"2008-08-28T19:27:38","slug":"tim-pawlenty-clears-his-friday-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4722","title":{"rendered":"Tim Pawlenty Clears his Friday Schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/marcambinder.theatlantic.com\/archives\/2008\/08\/pawlenty_clues_sked_cleared.php\">Marc Ambinder<\/a>, who credits WCCO. Pawlenty is probably the safest pick on the board for McCain &#8212; Romney has four houses and several hundred million dollars, which is not what you want if you&#8217;re trying to be just plain folks. Kay Bailey Hutchison would be daring, except for the fact that she&#8217;s Kay Bailey Hutchison &#8212; she makes continental drift look like the 4x400m relay. Pawlenty neither excites nor angers anyone. Whee.<\/p>\n<p>I still think it&#8217;s a colossal mistake for McCain to introduce TPaw to the country on the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina striking the Gulf Coast &#8212; good times, good times &#8212; but McCain has evidently decided that his voters don&#8217;t care about 1700-odd dead and hundreds of thousands displaced. Sadly, he&#8217;s probably right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Marc Ambinder, who credits WCCO. Pawlenty is probably the safest pick on the board for McCain &#8212; Romney has four houses and several hundred million dollars, which is not what you want if you&#8217;re trying to be just plain &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4722\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-and-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}