{"id":220,"date":"2004-12-09T10:31:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-09T16:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danflies.wordpress.com\/2004\/12\/09\/silly-norm"},"modified":"2004-12-09T10:31:00","modified_gmt":"2004-12-09T16:31:00","slug":"silly-norm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/silly-norm\/","title":{"rendered":"Silly Norm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know if Norm remembers what Minesotans are like now that he has moved to Washington DC on our backs.   There must be a little bit of NY creeping back in him, now that he is much closer to home.  <\/p>\n<p>The Star Tribune posted this article about the Oil-for-Food scandal.  Sen. Coleman is obviously sitting on the &#8220;right side&#8221; of the call for Kofi Annan to resign since he could only muster 5 House members and 0 fellow Senators.  <\/p>\n<p>Read the story and form your own opinion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/stories\/587\/5128157.html\">Coleman &#8216;reckless&#8217; with U.N. criticism, think tank says<\/a>: &#8220;Last week, Coleman, R-Minn., said that Annan should resign because of the oil-for-food scandal. Coleman&#8217;s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations said it had uncovered evidence that Saddam Hussein&#8217;s government raised more than $21.3 billion in illegal revenue by subverting U.N. sanctions against Iraq, including the oil-for-food program.<\/p>\n<p>Five Republican House members backed Coleman&#8217;s call, which Annan has rejected.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know if Norm remembers what Minesotans are like now that he has moved to Washington DC on our backs. There must be a little bit of NY creeping back in him, now that he is much closer to home. The Star Tribune posted this article about the Oil-for-Food scandal. Sen. Coleman is obviously [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}