{"id":186819,"date":"2013-09-27T19:09:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-28T00:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/09\/27\/captain-obvious-strikes\/"},"modified":"2013-09-27T19:09:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-28T00:09:00","slug":"captain-obvious-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/09\/27\/captain-obvious-strikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Captain Obvious Strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that his secret identy is <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/livewire\/pelosi-impossible-to-negotiate-with-house-gop\">Nancy Pelosi<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi sought Friday to lay the blame for a possible government shutdown on congressional Republicans, saying that they refused to negotiate on the issue.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Pelosi pointed to the GOP&#8217;s inability to reconcile their competing factions as the reason that the federal government is a few days away from shutting down.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">&#8220;It&#8217;s impossible for Democrats to negotiate with House Republicans when they can&#8217;t negotiate with themselves,&#8221; Pelosi told reporters. &#8220;We don&#8217;t know what we&#8217;re going to vote on from one minute to the next because I don&#8217;t think they know what they&#8217;re going to vote on.&#8221;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t know that they even know what they&#8217;re doing,&#8221; she added.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, duh!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that his secret identy is Nancy Pelosi: House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi sought Friday to lay the blame for a possible government shutdown on congressional Republicans, saying that they refused to negotiate on the issue.Pelosi pointed to the GOP&#8217;s inability to reconcile their competing factions as the reason that the federal government is &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1038,1020,978,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-legislation","category-politics","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186819"}],"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=186819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}