{"id":183634,"date":"2013-01-06T21:16:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T02:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/01\/06\/heh-3\/"},"modified":"2013-01-06T21:16:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-07T02:16:00","slug":"heh-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/01\/06\/heh-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Heh."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/sLHI6.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"400\" \/>At the start of a new Congress, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee <a href=\"http:\/\/livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com\/entry\/democrats-send-tea-party-membership-cards-to-gop\">sent out teabagger membership cards to the Republican Representatives<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">As new members of Congress are sworn in on Thursday, Democrats are looking to brand the incoming Republican class early on. The DCCC is sending out the above &#8220;Tea Party membership cards&#8221; to the offices of 35 freshman Republicans.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Press releases in their individual districts identify each member as &#8220;the newest Tea Party House Republican who will put millionaires ahead of the middle class and dysfunction ahead of progress,&#8221; according to DCCC communications director Jesse Ferguson. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is really what I call &#8220;immature College Republican agitprop,&#8221; but I still chuckled.<\/p>\n<p>I guess that a lot depends on whose ox is gored.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the start of a new Congress, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee sent out teabagger membership cards to the Republican Representatives: As new members of Congress are sworn in on Thursday, Democrats are looking to brand the incoming Republican class early on. The DCCC is sending out the above &#8220;Tea Party membership cards&#8221; to 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":[998,1100,978,1050],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-funny","category-politics","category-snark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183634"}],"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=183634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}