{"id":3377,"date":"2010-01-25T13:13:14","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T18:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=3377"},"modified":"2010-01-25T16:21:22","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T21:21:22","slug":"democrats-continue-to-jump-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/3377\/democrats-continue-to-jump-ship\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Continue to Jump Ship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The parade of horribles continues for the Democratic Party.\u00a0 After losing their filibuster-proof majority in the Senate last week and witnessing an important victory for free speech, Democrats now have to face <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/glennthrush\/0110\/Berry_Obama_said_big_difference_between_10_and_94_is_me.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">another retirement<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Marion Berry (no relation to the local politician in Washington, D.C.) announced that he would not seek reelection this year.\u00a0 Berry represents Arkansas&#8217; First District in the northeast part of the state.\u00a0 President Obama garnered just 38 percent of the vote there in 2008, so Berry\u2019s seat looks to be a prime pickup opportunity for the GOP.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, Joe Biden\u2019s son, Beau, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0110\/31952.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">announced that he would not<\/span><\/a> be a candidate for his father\u2019s former Senate seat, now held by Edward Kaufman.\u00a0 Kaufman is not considered to be a challenger this November either, leaving another vulnerable Senate seat for the Democrats.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollcall.com\/politics\/casualtylist.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Click here<\/span><\/a> for a full list of departing Members of Congress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The parade of horribles continues for the Democratic Party.\u00a0 After losing their filibuster-proof majority in the Senate last week and witnessing an important victory for free speech, Democrats now have to face another retirement. Marion Berry (no relation to the local politician in Washington, D.C.) announced that he would not seek reelection this year.\u00a0 Berry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[738,646,506,503,101],"class_list":["post-3377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-arkansas","tag-democratic-party","tag-democrats","tag-free-speech","tag-joe-biden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3377"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3382,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3377\/revisions\/3382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}