{"id":36370,"date":"2013-05-17T10:00:45","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T15:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=36370"},"modified":"2013-05-17T07:36:21","modified_gmt":"2013-05-17T12:36:21","slug":"36370","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=36370","title":{"rendered":"Like Lidocaine For The Cerebral Cortex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After Nanny Pelosi says the calls to investigate Attorney General Eric &#8220;Let&#8217;s send guns to the\u00a0<em>narcotraficantes\u00a0<\/em>and bug the AP&#8221; Holder is about &#8220;Voter Suppression&#8221;, Rep. Trey Gowdy, bless his heart, did something politicians almost never manage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/gop-rep-gowdy-nancy-pelosi-mind-numbingly-stupid-recommends-doctor-visit\">He told the truth<\/a> (emphasis added):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt\u2019s really beneath the office of a member of Congress to say something that outrageous, and the fact that she was once the speaker is mind-numbing,\u201d Rep. Gowdy told Fox News&#8217; Greta van Susteren.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-style: italic;\">&#8220;I have heard a lot in my 16 years as a prosecutor. I couldn\u2019t believe the words coming out of her mouth,&#8221; he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-style: italic;\">Gowdy calls Pelosi mind-numbingly stupid<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>I don\u2019t know what was wrong with her when she said that<\/strong>. But I would schedule an appointment with my doctor if she thinks that we are doing this to suppress votes this fall. <strong>That is mind-numbingly stupid,<\/strong>&#8221; Gowdy said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He wasn&#8217;t the only one:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Jim Hoft of the Gateway Pundit reminded readers that &#8220;Pelosi also said Democrats brought down the deficit after they increased it by a trillion dollars.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-style: italic;\">&#8220;She\u2019s either mind-numbingly stupid or a chronic liar, or both,&#8221; Hoft wrote.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I beg to differ.<\/p>\n<p>What she said &#8211; almost always says, in fact &#8211;\u00a0<em>is\u00a0<\/em>mind-numbingly stupid.<\/p>\n<p>But she&#8217;s speaking to the new Democrat base &#8211; the people who think a seven-second, Alinskyite sound bite\u00a0<em>is<\/em>, in fact, fact. \u00a0People whose idea of &#8220;checking facts&#8221; has devolved into &#8220;checking to see what my favorite left-leaning source says they are&#8221;, which is two steps up from Duckspeak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Nanny Pelosi says the calls to investigate Attorney General Eric &#8220;Let&#8217;s send guns to the\u00a0narcotraficantes\u00a0and bug the AP&#8221; Holder is about &#8220;Voter Suppression&#8221;, Rep. Trey Gowdy, bless his heart, did something politicians almost never manage. He told the truth (emphasis added): \u201cIt\u2019s really beneath the office of a member of Congress to say something [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-lefty-alt-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36370","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=36370"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36372,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36370\/revisions\/36372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}