{"id":193456,"date":"2008-12-14T19:48:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-15T00:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/14\/quote-of-the-day-273\/"},"modified":"2008-12-14T19:48:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-15T00:48:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-273","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/14\/quote-of-the-day-273\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it appears that David Vitter has been doing celebratory dances about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nola.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2008\/12\/vitter_faulted_for_derailing_a.html%20Vitter\">his role in killing the auto bailout<\/a>, and some people beg to differ:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know what Sen. Vitter has against GM or the United Auto Workers or the entire domestic auto industry; whatever it is, whatever he thinks we&#8217;ve done, it&#8217;s time for him to forgive us, just like Sen. Vitter has asked the citizens of Louisiana to forgive him, &#8221; said Johnson [Morgan Johnson, president of the UAW local for GM in Shreveport], president of Local 2166. Otherwise, Johnson said of Vitter, it would appear, &#8220;He&#8217;d rather pay a prostitute than pay auto workers.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it appears that David Vitter has been doing celebratory dances about his role in killing the auto bailout, and some people beg to differ: &#8220;I don&#8217;t know what Sen. Vitter has against GM or the United Auto Workers or the entire domestic auto industry; whatever it is, whatever he thinks we&#8217;ve done, it&#8217;s time &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[962,1108,998,1100,1020],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40yrs","category-auto-industry","category-congress","category-funny","category-legislation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193456"}],"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=193456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}