{"id":176787,"date":"2020-03-22T18:04:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-22T23:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/03\/22\/could-not-happen-to-a-more-deserving-rat-f\/"},"modified":"2020-03-22T18:04:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-22T23:04:00","slug":"could-not-happen-to-a-more-deserving-rat-f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/03\/22\/could-not-happen-to-a-more-deserving-rat-f\/","title":{"rendered":"Could Not Happen to a More Deserving Rat-F%$#"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/212uv.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/212uv.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"250\" \/><\/a>Senator Rand Paul, who voted against Covid-19 relief, is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/rand-paul-coronavirus-847b3df1-92bc-4ee6-833b-952d16f3ee3f.html\">the first Senator to test positive for the virus<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I am intensely amused by this.  Does this make me a bad person?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has tested positive for the coronavirus, his office <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RandPaul\/status\/1241780756617273345\">announced<\/a> on Twitter Sunday.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Why it matters: He&#8217;s the first U.S. senator to test positive. According to his office, Paul is asymptomatic and was not aware of making direct contact with an infected person.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: blue;\">Paul, a licensed physician and notorious deficit hawk, was the only senator to vote against a bipartisan <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.house.gov\/billsthisweek\/20200302\/BILLS-116hr6074-SUS.pdf\">$8 billion deal<\/a> to provide emergency coronavirus funding earlier this month.<\/span><\/li>\n<p><span style=\"color: blue;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<li><span style=\"color: blue;\">He sought to introduce an amendment that would take the funding from the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development, but it was voted down 80-16.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s the little things that make life good.<\/p>\n<p>This is one of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Rand Paul, who voted against Covid-19 relief, is the first Senator to test positive for the virus. I am intensely amused by this. Does this make me a bad person? Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has tested positive for the coronavirus, his office announced on Twitter Sunday. Why it matters: He&#8217;s the first U.S. senator &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[447,572,374,460,486],"class_list":["post-176787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-congress","tag-pandemic","tag-politics","tag-public-health","tag-schadenfreude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176787"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}