{"id":185330,"date":"2011-07-28T19:41:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-29T00:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/07\/28\/teabagger-family-values\/"},"modified":"2011-07-28T19:41:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T00:41:00","slug":"teabagger-family-values","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/07\/28\/teabagger-family-values\/","title":{"rendered":"Teabagger Family Values"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Teabagger Congressman who defeated Melissa Bean (no great loss, she was a horrible Dino) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/local\/breaking\/chi-congressman-owes-117000-in-child-support-suit-says-20110728,0,1920210.story\">is being sued for $117,000 in unpaid child support<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s claiming poverty, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/politics\/war_room\/2011\/07\/28\/joe_walsh_debt\/\">he loaned his congressional campaign $35,000<\/a>, so I&#8217;ll just put it down to his being a sleaze ball:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>U.S. Rep. Joe Walsh of McHenry owes more than $100,000 in child support and interest to his former wife, she alleges in a Cook County Circuit Court filing.<\/p>\n<p>The dispute, set out in a court filing last December, remains unsettled. Walsh&#8217;s ex-wife says he is $117,437 behind in payments.<\/p>\n<p>Walsh, 49-year-old Republican, entered Congress in January, swept into office with help from tea-party activists. He often appears on television demanding the country drastically cut its spending and pay its bills.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>John Kenneth Galbraith nailed it when he said, &#8220;The modern conservative is engaged in one of man&#8217;s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Teabagger Congressman who defeated Melissa Bean (no great loss, she was a horrible Dino) is being sued for $117,000 in unpaid child support. He&#8217;s claiming poverty, but he loaned his congressional campaign $35,000, so I&#8217;ll just put it down to his being a sleaze ball: U.S. Rep. Joe Walsh of McHenry owes more than &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1051],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-hypocrisy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185330"}],"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=185330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}