{"id":19356,"date":"2011-04-14T07:31:51","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T13:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=19356"},"modified":"2011-04-14T07:31:51","modified_gmt":"2011-04-14T13:31:51","slug":"jerk-in-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=19356","title":{"rendered":"Jerk In Chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When he got invited to the President&#8217;s speech yesterday, he thought the President was going to exercise some of that &#8220;reaching across the aisle&#8221; and &#8220;new tone in politics&#8221; that the President and his media are always yapping about. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/264671\/excessively-partisan-dramatically-inaccurate-and-hopelessly-inadequate-andrew-stiles\">According to NRO&#8217;s Andrew Stiles<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ryan says he was \u201cexcited\u201d to received an invitation to the president\u2019s speech, and thought it was a potential \u201colive branch\u201d to the GOP signaling the start of meaningful negotiations over the deficit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We all saw how it really worked:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I imagine being forced to sit through a smug lecture explaining how the serious plan you\u2019ve just proposed to save America from a debt crisis is actually, in fact, fundamentally un-American, is not a very pleasant experience.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But it is part of the left&#8217;s, and in particular this President&#8217;s; our leaders are professors; everyone who agrees with him are the good students; the ones who don&#8217;t are the ones on double-dog academic probation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When he got invited to the President&#8217;s speech yesterday, he thought the President was going to exercise some of that &#8220;reaching across the aisle&#8221; and &#8220;new tone in politics&#8221; that the President and his media are always yapping about. \u00a0According to NRO&#8217;s Andrew Stiles: Ryan says he was \u201cexcited\u201d to received an invitation to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-president-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19356","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=19356"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19361,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19356\/revisions\/19361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}