{"id":185273,"date":"2011-08-16T20:59:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T01:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/08\/16\/this-is-a-whole-new-level-of-lame\/"},"modified":"2011-08-16T20:59:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-17T01:59:00","slug":"this-is-a-whole-new-level-of-lame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/08\/16\/this-is-a-whole-new-level-of-lame\/","title":{"rendered":"This is a Whole New Level of Lame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After proposing the elimination of Medicare, and getting savaged at town hall meetings, Paul Ryan has found a solution, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0811\/61454.html\">charging admission to his town hall meetings<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>It will cost $15 to ask Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) a question in person during the August congressional recess.<\/p>\n<p>The House Budget Committee chairman isn\u2019t holding any face-to-face open-to-the-public town hall meetings during the recess, but like several of his colleagues he will speak only for residents willing to open their wallets.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan, who took substantial criticism from his southeast Wisconsin constituents in April after he introduced the Republicans\u2019 budget proposal, isn\u2019t the only member of congress whose August recess town hall-style meetings are strictly pay-per-view.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Words can not express the lamitude of this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After proposing the elimination of Medicare, and getting savaged at town hall meetings, Paul Ryan has found a solution, charging admission to his town hall meetings: It will cost $15 to ask Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) a question in person during the August congressional recess. The House Budget Committee chairman isn\u2019t holding any face-to-face open-to-the-public &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[969,978,982,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evil","category-politics","category-stupid","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185273"}],"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=185273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}