{"id":25125,"date":"2011-12-30T05:49:25","date_gmt":"2011-12-30T11:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=25125"},"modified":"2011-12-30T10:53:50","modified_gmt":"2011-12-30T16:53:50","slug":"life-is-full-of-irony-for-the-stupid-part-mmmlcccxxxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=25125","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Life Is Full Of Irony For The Stupid&#8221;, Part MMMDCCCXXXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-style: normal; line-height: 24px;\">STOP THE PRESSES!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-style: normal; line-height: 24px;\">Yet another lefty writer has discovered that Republicans are <em>TEH\u00a0HYPOCRITES HYPOCRITES HYPOCRITES<\/em>!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-style: normal; line-height: 24px;\">In this case, it&#8217;s one\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"font-style: normal; line-height: 24px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/brad-friedman\/republicans-require-no-ph_b_1173283.html?ref=politics\">Brad Friedman<\/a>\u00a0over at the <em>HuffPo<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For all of their years of claims that massive voter fraud is going on at the polling place, such that photo ID restrictions are required to ensure the integrity of the vote, youd think that when Republicans have a chance to run their own elections, theyd be sure to want it to be as &#8220;fraud&#8221;-free as possible.Nonetheless, despite onerous polling place photo ID requirements now passed into law in about a dozen states where the GOP controls both the legislative and executive branches, voters will be able to cast their ballot in next Tuesdays &#8220;First-in-the-Nation&#8221; Republican Iowa caucuses without bothering to show a photo ID &#8212; even though the Republican Party itself sets their own rules for voting there.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wow. \u00a0That could mean the GOP are a bunch of\u00a0<em style=\"color: #333333; line-height: 24px;\">TEH\u00a0HYPOCRITES HYPOCRITES HYPOCRITES<\/em><span style=\"color: #333333; font-style: normal; line-height: 24px;\">!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Or it might mean that a statewide caucus is open only to registered activists, and that a party precinct will have a better-than-fair idea of who their registred members are, and it&#8217;s completely different than an actual election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STOP THE PRESSES! Yet another lefty writer has discovered that Republicans are TEH\u00a0HYPOCRITES HYPOCRITES HYPOCRITES!\u00a0 In this case, it&#8217;s one\u00a0Brad Friedman\u00a0over at the HuffPo: For all of their years of claims that massive voter fraud is going on at the polling place, such that photo ID restrictions are required to ensure the integrity of 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":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-integrity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25125","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=25125"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25128,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25125\/revisions\/25128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}