{"id":189152,"date":"2010-05-14T12:09:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-14T17:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/05\/14\/when-life-resembles-an-al-franken-funny-book\/"},"modified":"2010-05-14T12:09:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-14T17:09:00","slug":"when-life-resembles-an-al-franken-funny-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/05\/14\/when-life-resembles-an-al-franken-funny-book\/","title":{"rendered":"When Life Resembles an Al Franken Funny Book\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Specifically, Tom Harkin is <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2010\/05\/14\/news\/companies\/atm_fees\/index.htm\">proposing a an amendment to the finance reform bill to limit ATM fees to 50\u00a2<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I approve of the idea, particularly because it&#8217;s an in-your-face to the free market worshippers, but I&#8217;m not sure if it is a good idea for the finance reform bill.<\/p>\n<p>As to the Al Franken book in question, it was the book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Why-Not-Me-Unmaking-Presidency\/dp\/0385334540\/\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Why Not Me?<\/span><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Hw wrote his (fictitious) successful quest for the presidency using populist anger over ATM fees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Specifically, Tom Harkin is proposing a an amendment to the finance reform bill to limit ATM fees to 50\u00a2. I approve of the idea, particularly because it&#8217;s an in-your-face to the free market worshippers, but I&#8217;m not sure if it is a good idea for the finance reform bill. As to the Al Franken book &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1004,1175,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-finance","category-literature","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189152"}],"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=189152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}