{"id":4596,"date":"2008-10-24T02:00:55","date_gmt":"2008-10-24T02:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8000\/\/?p=4596"},"modified":"2008-10-24T02:00:55","modified_gmt":"2008-10-24T02:00:55","slug":"blame-game-gop-forms-circular-firing-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/?p=4596","title":{"rendered":"Blame game: GOP forms circular firing squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"content-image-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"124\" height=\"91\" src=\"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/fingerpointing2.jpeg\" class=\"content-image-block\" alt=\"image\" style=\"max-width: 100%; height: auto; display: block; margin: 15px auto;\" \/><\/div>\n<p><i>If McCain comes back to win this election, it will be the story of the year. It seems like the people with the McCain campaign don&#8217;t believe in victory anymore. <\/i><\/p>\n<p>Report by: Jonathan Martin and Mike Allen and John F. Harris  (Politico.com)<\/p>\n<p>With despair rising even among many of John McCain<\/p>\n<p>McCain told the Times that the administration<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If McCain comes back to win this election, it will be the story of the year. It seems like the people with the McCain campaign <a href=\"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/?p=4596\" class=\"read-more-link\">[Read More]<\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost:8000\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/fingerpointing2.jpeg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"124\" height=\"91\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}