{"id":15838,"date":"2010-12-02T07:53:50","date_gmt":"2010-12-02T13:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=15838"},"modified":"2020-12-21T05:32:39","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T11:32:39","slug":"where-their-loyalties-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=15838","title":{"rendered":"Where Their Loyalties Are"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Franken and Klobuchar <a href=\"via KLOBUCHAR AND FRANKEN VOTE TO PROTECT PORK | Minnesota Democrats Exposed.\">vote for pork<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Today\u2019s cloture vote on an amendment from Sen. Coburn to ban earmarks from legislation in the U.S. Senate failed while both of Minnesota\u2019s Senators voiced their lack of concern over pork-barrel spending by voting \u201cno\u201d. A similar measure was passed recently by the House of Representatives and the Coburn motion would have banned earmark spending from being attached to bills through 2013.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Are they- especially A-Klo &#8211; banking that the electoral climate will swing back to mindless Obamamania by 2012? \u00a0 That next year&#8217;s tax hikes will leave people unperturbed, even here in Minnesota?<\/p>\n<p>Or is the spell of boundless power to spend other peoples&#8217; money that powerful?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Franken and Klobuchar vote for pork: Today\u2019s cloture vote on an amendment from Sen. Coburn to ban earmarks from legislation in the U.S. Senate failed while both of Minnesota\u2019s Senators voiced their lack of concern over pork-barrel spending by voting \u201cno\u201d. A similar measure was passed recently by the House of Representatives and the Coburn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[208],"class_list":["post-15838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics","tag-a-klo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15838"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76185,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15838\/revisions\/76185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}