{"id":188998,"date":"2010-06-17T19:53:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T00:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/06\/17\/the-people-of-america-have-learned-what-the-people-of-texas-already-knew\/"},"modified":"2010-06-17T19:53:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-18T00:53:00","slug":"the-people-of-america-have-learned-what-the-people-of-texas-already-knew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/06\/17\/the-people-of-america-have-learned-what-the-people-of-texas-already-knew\/","title":{"rendered":"The People of America Have Learned What the People of Texas Already Knew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That representative Joe Barton (R-TX) is a complete moron.<\/p>\n<p>You see, he<a href=\"http:\/\/thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/06\/17\/white-house-throws-the-shame-word-back-at-barton\/\"> publicly apologized to BP<\/a> for what he called a, &#8220;$20 billion shakedown&#8221; by the Obama administration in getting the giant oil company to pay into an escrow fund. (He has since <a href=\"http:\/\/thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/06\/17\/barton-what-i-meant-to-say\/?ref=politics\">recanted<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>To my mind, if the Dems don&#8217;t run with this like an overpaid wide receiver at the Superbowl, they are morons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That representative Joe Barton (R-TX) is a complete moron. You see, he publicly apologized to BP for what he called a, &#8220;$20 billion shakedown&#8221; by the Obama administration in getting the giant oil company to pay into an escrow fund. (He has since recanted) To my mind, if the Dems don&#8217;t run with this like &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1135,978,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-politics","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188998"}],"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=188998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}