{"id":7994,"date":"2011-09-27T12:10:55","date_gmt":"2011-09-27T17:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=7994"},"modified":"2011-09-27T12:23:03","modified_gmt":"2011-09-27T17:23:03","slug":"elizabeth-warren-endorsed-by-russ-feingold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2011\/09\/27\/elizabeth-warren-endorsed-by-russ-feingold\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Warren Endorsed By Russ Feingold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Talking Points Memo<\/em> has the story <strong><a title=\"Talking Points Memo article\" href=\"http:\/\/2012.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2011\/09\/elizabeth-warren-endorsed-by-russ-feingold.php?ref=fpb\" target=\"_blank\">Elizabeth Warren Endorsed By Russ Feingold<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIn all my years in the Senate, I always took positions that I believed in, even when my own party tried to stand in the way,\u201d Feingold writes. \u201cI know Elizabeth will be exactly the same kind of senator.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sometimes I would get upset with Feingold for opposing some of Obama&#8217;s initiatives.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know if his opposition did more good than harm.\u00a0 Perhaps he understood Obama&#8217;s failings better than I did.<\/p>\n<p>Thinking back to my days as a supervisor\/manager, I remember that when you have a failing employee, you need to start discussing the problems with that employee as soon as possible.\u00a0 If it should get to the point where you have to fire the employee, it should come as no surprise to the employee.\u00a0 If you didn&#8217;t give the employee plenty of opportunities to correct the troublesome performance, then you have failed as a supervisor\/manager.<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, all of us who held our tongues when Obama failed us time and again were failing as the voters who elected him.\u00a0 It shouldn&#8217;t have taken three years for us to deliver the message loud and clear that Obama was in danger of being fired.\u00a0 Yes, it shouldn&#8217;t have taken Obama three years to appear to come to his senses.\u00a0 We may both bear some blame for the delay that may cost him his job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talking Points Memo has the story Elizabeth Warren Endorsed By Russ Feingold. \u201cIn all my years in the Senate, I always took positions that I believed in, even when my own party tried to stand in the way,\u201d Feingold writes. \u201cI know Elizabeth will be exactly the same kind of senator.\u201d Sometimes I would get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7994","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7994"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7999,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7994\/revisions\/7999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}