{"id":2470,"date":"2007-04-29T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-29T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/04\/wow-this-guy-has-his-finger-on.html"},"modified":"2007-04-29T07:30:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-29T07:30:00","slug":"wow-this-guy-has-his-finger-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/04\/wow-this-guy-has-his-finger-on.html","title":{"rendered":"Wow!  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A very bad Secretary of Transportation and absolutely no good will from the Democrats.<br \/>\nWe don&#8217;t want a uniter, we want a fighter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you were courting Republican primary voters, would you say this: Republican John McCain says he intends to appoint a Democrat to a high-profile Cabinet post if he&#8217;s elected president. &#8220;There are very highly qualified Democrats on a number of issues,&#8221; McCain said. &#8220;The more efforts you can make towards bipartisanship, I think in Washington&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[70,13,14,71],"class_list":["post-2470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-under-the-sun","tag-mccain","tag-politics","tag-presidential-election","tag-republicans"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Wow! 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