{"id":1692,"date":"2010-03-03T12:06:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T16:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/03\/03\/rangel-loses-chairmanship-paterson-pushed-to-the-brink\/"},"modified":"2010-03-03T12:06:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T16:06:00","slug":"rangel-loses-chairmanship-paterson-pushed-to-the-brink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/03\/03\/rangel-loses-chairmanship-paterson-pushed-to-the-brink\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangel loses chairmanship, Paterson pushed to the brink&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie Rangel just got bumped from his top dog post in the House Ways and Means Committee &#8212; a position, by the way, that benefited New Yorkers hugely.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, every newspaper in the Empire state is suggesting that Governor David Paterson find someplace other than the governor&#8217;s mansion to spend the next year.<\/p>\n<p>What is it about New York state politics?  Joe Bruno, convicted.  Eliot Spitzer, disgraced.  <\/p>\n<p>Heck, even our former state Comptroller Alan Hevesi couldn&#8217;t keep out of trouble.  <\/p>\n<p>And how many of these numbskulls crashed and burned over stupid stuff?  <\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t they have aides and assistants and wives?  <\/p>\n<p>Doesn&#8217;t anyone ever tug their sleeve and say, &#8220;You know, David, if you make that phone call you could wreck your entire life?  Oh &#8212; and betray the trust of the people who elected you?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sigh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie Rangel just got bumped from his top dog post in the House Ways and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}