{"id":189644,"date":"2010-02-26T21:06:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-27T02:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/02\/26\/the-moral-of-this-story-republicans-are-mean-democrats-are-patsies\/"},"modified":"2010-02-26T21:06:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-27T02:06:00","slug":"the-moral-of-this-story-republicans-are-mean-democrats-are-patsies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/02\/26\/the-moral-of-this-story-republicans-are-mean-democrats-are-patsies\/","title":{"rendered":"The moral of this story: Republicans are mean; Democrats are patsies."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taylor Marsh&#8217;s take on the latest filibuster kerfluffle, where <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taylormarsh.com\/2010\/02\/26\/jim-bunning-shows-democrats-how-its-done\/\">Jim Bunning told Democrats, &#8220;Tough sh%$,&#8221; when they confronted him<\/a> about blocking the emergency unemployment extension:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>    <span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">In a colloquy with Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Sen. Jeff Merkley, a freshman Democrat from Oregon, was pleading for Bunning to drop his objection, when the Kentucky Republican got fed up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">    \u201cTough s\u2014t,\u201d Bunning said as he was seated in the back row, overheard by the floor staff and others in attendance.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Like I said before, prima donnas and drama queens, and the prima donnas and drama queens <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">always<\/span> win in the Senate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taylor Marsh&#8217;s take on the latest filibuster kerfluffle, where Jim Bunning told Democrats, &#8220;Tough sh%$,&#8221; when they confronted him about blocking the emergency unemployment extension: In a colloquy with Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Sen. Jeff Merkley, a freshman Democrat from Oregon, was pleading for Bunning to drop his objection, when the Kentucky Republican &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,969,1020,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-evil","category-legislation","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189644"}],"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=189644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}