{"id":183937,"date":"2012-09-28T20:32:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-29T01:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/09\/28\/tommy-toast-thompson\/"},"modified":"2012-09-28T20:32:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-29T01:32:00","slug":"tommy-toast-thompson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/09\/28\/tommy-toast-thompson\/","title":{"rendered":"Tommy &#8220;Toast&#8221; Thompson"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 400px;\"><object height=\"219\" width=\"389\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/IHrVh4qevfU?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/IHrVh4qevfU?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"389\" height=\"219\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/><i>Bummer of a Birthmark, Hal<\/i><\/div>\n<p>You know, when you talk to constituents you get taped.<\/p>\n<p>So if you want to pander to teabaggers <a href=\"http:\/\/2012.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2012\/09\/tammy-baldwin-tommy-thompson-do-away-with-medicare.php\">your statements saying that you are the best person to get rid of medicare and medicaid will end up online<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Already down almost 10 points in the PollTracker Average, Tommy Thompson has now shown up in a video from a Tea Party meeting in June bragging that who better than him to \u201cdo away with the Medicare and Medicaid\u201d<\/span>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>BTW, I&#8217;m watching his debate with Tammy Baldwin right now, and I&#8217;m wondering if he if he was <b>always<\/b> this dense, or if he&#8217;s doddering a bit in his old age.<\/p>\n<p>He <b>really<\/b> sounds out of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bummer of a Birthmark, Hal You know, when you talk to constituents you get taped. So if you want to pander to teabaggers your statements saying that you are the best person to get rid of medicare and medicaid will end up online: Already down almost 10 points in the PollTracker Average, Tommy Thompson has &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1000,1046,1019],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-elections","category-healthcare","category-schadenfreude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183937"}],"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=183937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}