{"id":179855,"date":"2017-10-05T18:51:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T23:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/10\/05\/buh-bye-2\/"},"modified":"2017-10-05T18:51:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T23:51:00","slug":"buh-bye-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/10\/05\/buh-bye-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Buh Bye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anti-abortion firebrand Tim Murphy (R-PA) was caught pressuring his mistress to get an abortion.<\/p>\n<p>First, he announced that he would not be running for reelection, and now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/powerpost\/rep-tim-murphy-resigns-from-congress-after-allegedly-asking-woman-to-have-abortion\/2017\/10\/05\/7a68a414-aa08-11e7-850e-2bdd1236be5d_story.html\">he has resigned from Congress<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Rep. Tim Murphy said Thursday that he will resign from Congress this month, a day after the eight-term Pennsylvania Republican announced that he would not seek reelection amid a personal scandal. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cUpon further discussion with my family, I have made the decision to resign my position\u201d effective Oct. 21, Murphy wrote in a letter to House Speaker Paul D. Ryan. \u201cI am grateful for the opportunity to have served the people of southwestern Pennsylvania and to have worked with the talented and dedicated men and women of the United States Congress.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The resignation of Murphy, a clinical psychologist, comes after a news report claimed that the married Republican had asked a woman with whom he had an extramarital affair to get an abortion.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Alpha Mike Foxtrot, Mr. Murphy, Alpha Mike Foxtrot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anti-abortion firebrand Tim Murphy (R-PA) was caught pressuring his mistress to get an abortion. First, he announced that he would not be running for reelection, and now he has resigned from Congress Rep. Tim Murphy said Thursday that he will resign from Congress this month, a day after the eight-term Pennsylvania Republican announced that he &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":[551,447,387,374,486,448],"class_list":["post-179855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-abortion","tag-congress","tag-hypocrisy","tag-politics","tag-schadenfreude","tag-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179855"}],"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=179855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}