{"id":182349,"date":"2015-10-13T19:11:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-14T00:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/10\/13\/my-expectations-of-republicans-have-once-again-been-proven-too-high\/"},"modified":"2015-10-13T19:11:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-14T00:11:00","slug":"my-expectations-of-republicans-have-once-again-been-proven-too-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/10\/13\/my-expectations-of-republicans-have-once-again-been-proven-too-high\/","title":{"rendered":"My Expectations of Republicans Have Once Again Been Proven Too High"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/JcA0x.jpg\" rel=\"lytebox\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/JcA0x.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"250\" \/><\/a>It appears that Republicans need to <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/livewire\/sanger-national-portrait-gallery\">get their hate on<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">A group of Republican lawmakers are reiterating their call for the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery to remove a bust of Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and 25 House members <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cruz.senate.gov%2Ffiles%2Fdocuments%2FLetters%2F20151013_Cruz_Gohmert_SangerLetter.pdf\">sent a letter<\/a> to the museum&#8217;s director Kim Sajet Friday calling the display of the bust &#8220;an affront both to basic human decency and the very meaning of justice.&#8221; <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/>The letter pointed to Sanger&#8217;s support of eugenics, but also blasted her for founding Planned Parenthood, which has been in the crosshairs of congressional Republicans and nearly prompted them to shutdown the federal government rather the reauthorize its funding.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It appears that I cannot set my expectations low enough to meet the reality that is the Republican Party. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img216.imageshack.us\/img216\/4520\/15qdr938609019.gif\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that Republicans need to get their hate on A group of Republican lawmakers are reiterating their call for the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery to remove a bust of Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and 25 House members sent a letter to the museum&#8217;s director Kim Sajet Friday calling the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,969,978,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-evil","category-politics","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182349"}],"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=182349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}