{"id":183712,"date":"2012-12-12T19:38:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-13T00:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/12\/12\/from-the-department-of-well-duh-6\/"},"modified":"2012-12-12T19:38:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-13T00:38:00","slug":"from-the-department-of-well-duh-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/12\/12\/from-the-department-of-well-duh-6\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Department of, &#8220;Well Duh!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Van Hollen is suggesting that <a href=\"http:\/\/livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com\/entry\/van-hollen-boehner-may-be-waiting-til-after\">John Boehner is sandbagging the &#8220;fiscal cliff&#8221; negotiations until after his reelection as speaker<\/a>, to avoid the possibility that his caucus will give his orange ass the boot for whatever deal he cut.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not surprised.  If he cuts a deal, he will have the Teabagger back benchers screaming for his head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Van Hollen is suggesting that John Boehner is sandbagging the &#8220;fiscal cliff&#8221; negotiations until after his reelection as speaker, to avoid the possibility that his caucus will give his orange ass the boot for whatever deal he cut. I&#8217;m not surprised. If he cuts a deal, he will have the Teabagger back benchers screaming &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1038,998,978,983,1173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-congress","category-politics","category-taxes","category-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183712"}],"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=183712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}