{"id":48,"date":"2003-03-14T22:09:54","date_gmt":"2003-03-14T22:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:07:57","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:07:57","slug":"good_news_on_a_friday_moran_steps_down_as_asst_whip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=48","title":{"rendered":"Good News on a Friday &#8211; Moran Steps Down As Asst. Whip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2003\/ALLPOLITICS\/03\/14\/moran.remarks\/index.html\" target=\"browser\">CNN.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Moran steps down from leadership post<br \/>\nLawmaker under fire for saying Jews push war with Iraq<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Jim Moran: &#8220;I will strive to learn from my mistakes.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON (CNN) &#8212; Harshly criticized for saying pressure from the Jewish community was driving the push toward a possible war against Iraq, Rep. James Moran stepped down Friday as a House Democratic regional whip. <\/p>\n<p>House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi of California issued a statement indicating she left Moran, D-Virginia, with little choice but to give up his leadership post. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have taken this action because Congressman Moran&#8217;s irresponsible remarks were a serious mistake,&#8221; Pelosi said in a statement. &#8220;As I said earlier this week, his comments were not only inappropriate, they were offensive and have no place in the Democratic Party.&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s one where the mainstream press was ahead of the liberal blogosphere; something I&#8217;ll dig into and comment upon at some point.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll also comment that he surrendered his least-significant role, and that he&#8217;s retained his committee positions in the Appropriations and Budget committees.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think the bloggers covered themselves in glory on this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From CNN.com: Moran steps down from leadership post Lawmaker under fire for saying Jews push war with Iraq Rep. Jim Moran: &#8220;I will strive to learn from my mistakes.&#8221; WASHINGTON (CNN) &#8212; Harshly criticized for saying pressure from the Jewish community was driving the push toward a possible war against Iraq, Rep. James Moran stepped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}