{"id":183671,"date":"2012-12-26T20:55:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-27T01:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/12\/26\/republicans-do-not-have-a-monopoly-on-stupid\/"},"modified":"2012-12-26T20:55:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-27T01:55:00","slug":"republicans-do-not-have-a-monopoly-on-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/12\/26\/republicans-do-not-have-a-monopoly-on-stupid\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Do Not Have a Monopoly On Stupid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/NV8go.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"200\" \/>Case in point, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/politics\/la-pn-sen-boxer-national-guard-schools-20121219,0,7530900.story\">Senator Barbara Boxer is proposing to deploy National Guard to public schools<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Federal funds would be made available to deploy National Guard troops at schools under legislation introduced Wednesday by Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) in response to last week\u2019s mass slaying at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The Save Our Schools Act would leave it to governors to decide whether to call out the National Guard and how to use troops around schools.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">&#8220;Is it not part of the national defense to make sure that your children are safe?&#8221; Boxer said at Capitol Hill press conference.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, armed soldiers patrolling the corridors of our schools is <b>such<\/b> a good idea.<\/p>\n<p>We really need to strengthen out Posse Comitatus law, not abolish it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Case in point, Senator Barbara Boxer is proposing to deploy National Guard to public schools: Federal funds would be made available to deploy National Guard troops at schools under legislation introduced Wednesday by Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) in response to last week\u2019s mass slaying at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn.The Save Our Schools Act &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,968,1055,978,982,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-education","category-gun-laws","category-politics","category-stupid","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183671"}],"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=183671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}