{"id":187721,"date":"2011-03-25T12:34:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T17:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/03\/25\/the-concept-is-so-repugnant-that-obama-will-have-to-offer-a-compromise\/"},"modified":"2011-03-25T12:34:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-25T17:34:00","slug":"the-concept-is-so-repugnant-that-obama-will-have-to-offer-a-compromise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/03\/25\/the-concept-is-so-repugnant-that-obama-will-have-to-offer-a-compromise\/","title":{"rendered":"The Concept is So Repugnant that Obama Will Have to Offer a Compromise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just when I think that the Republican party cannot get any more contemptible, they do something that makes me sit there with a stunned expression on my face that resembles nothing more than a cow that just stepped on its own udder.<\/p>\n<p>Case in point, the Republicans are trying to pass a law that would <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2011\/03\/23\/buried-provision-food-stamps\">take away food stamps from the children of strikers<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>However, one section buried deep within the bill adds a startling new requirement. The bill, if passed, would actually cut off all food stamp benefits to any family where one adult member is engaging in a strike against an employer:<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img861.imageshack.us\/img861\/8391\/strike20626370.jpg\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I understand that Republicans hate labor unions, but taking it out on their <b>children<\/b>??<\/p>\n<p>You have to be Ernst Stavro Blofeld with the f%$#ing white Persian cat on your lap in order to be that evil.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, I&#8217;m <b>sure<\/b> that Barack Obama will find a way to compromise on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just when I think that the Republican party cannot get any more contemptible, they do something that makes me sit there with a stunned expression on my face that resembles nothing more than a cow that just stepped on its own udder. Case in point, the Republicans are trying to pass a law that would &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,969,1023,1020,1086],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-evil","category-labor","category-legislation","category-social-safety-net"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187721"}],"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=187721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}