{"id":22788,"date":"2011-09-09T12:45:56","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T17:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=22788"},"modified":"2011-09-09T15:33:24","modified_gmt":"2011-09-09T20:33:24","slug":"22788","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=22788","title":{"rendered":"One Verdict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"yui_3_2_0_1_1315510372254558\">Joe Doakes of Como Park writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pass This Bill?<\/p>\n<p>Okay, Let\u2019s Do It.\u00a0 Hey you, Mr. Clerk of the House, what\u2019s the File Number of the President\u2019s jobs bill?\u00a0 Let\u2019s call it up right now and take a vote.<\/p>\n<p>Huh?\u00a0 There isn\u2019t a House File number?\u00a0 Why not?<\/p>\n<p>What do you mean the bill hasn\u2019t been written, yet?\u00a0 He just called on us to pass it, a dozen times.<\/p>\n<p>The President is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tv\/valerie-jarrett-to-fox-business-job-bill-will-be-paid-for-by-closing-loopholes\/\">going to start writing the jobs bill next week<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Then why in Hell did we have to listen to his speech last night?\u00a0 Why the hoo-haw about scheduling the speech on the night of the Republican debate, the hysterics about rescheduling it to the night of the Packers game, the wailing about the discourtesy of Republicans not responding to the speech, not even attending, when in the end it turns out the Republicans were right all along \u2013 there\u2019s no point in responding, there\u2019s no point in even attending, because there\u2019s NO BILL TO PASS.<\/p>\n<p>This entire episode was empty hot air from an empty suit.\u00a0 Worse than Carter, which I wouldn\u2019t have believed possible.<\/p>\n<p>Worst.\u00a0 President.\u00a0 Ever.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s always tempting to run a poll &#8211; but a poll with only two options is kinda anticlimactic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes of Como Park writes: Pass This Bill? Okay, Let\u2019s Do It.\u00a0 Hey you, Mr. Clerk of the House, what\u2019s the File Number of the President\u2019s jobs bill?\u00a0 Let\u2019s call it up right now and take a vote. Huh?\u00a0 There isn\u2019t a House File number?\u00a0 Why not? What do you mean the bill hasn\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-president-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22788","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=22788"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22790,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22788\/revisions\/22790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}