{"id":38839,"date":"2013-10-03T08:15:12","date_gmt":"2013-10-03T13:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=38839"},"modified":"2013-10-03T09:20:46","modified_gmt":"2013-10-03T14:20:46","slug":"why-do-reps-ellison-mccollum-walz-and-nolan-hate-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=38839","title":{"rendered":"Why Do Reps. Ellison, McCollum, Walz And Nolan Hate Veterans?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four of Minnesota&#8217;s five House reps <a href=\"http:\/\/action.eriksoderstrom.com\/voteforvets\/\">voted against funding veterans <\/a>benefits during the shutdown (Collin Peterson did the right thing). <\/p>\n<p>Now, their explanation will be that the Democrats&#8217; congressional leadership &#8211; Reid and Pelosi &#8211; want the <em>whole budget <\/em>passed, not a bunch of piecemeal mini-budgets &#8211; because that&#8217;s just not the way we do budgets, apparently.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the Democrats don&#8217;t do budgets at all  But I digress.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s buncombe, of course; the GOP&#8217;s strategy, making the Democrats justify their spending piece by piece rather than having it all jammed down in full tantrum mode &#8211; might just show the people that there&#8217;s an alternative in DC.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;d make the Democrats in DC very upset.<\/p>\n<p>So the real question is why do DC Democrats hate taxpayers?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four of Minnesota&#8217;s five House reps voted against funding veterans benefits during the shutdown (Collin Peterson did the right thing). Now, their explanation will be that the Democrats&#8217; congressional leadership &#8211; Reid and Pelosi &#8211; want the whole budget passed, not a bunch of piecemeal mini-budgets &#8211; because that&#8217;s just not the way we do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,20,123],"tags":[266],"class_list":["post-38839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-14","category-democrats","category-taxes","tag-shutdownpocalypse-2013"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38839","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=38839"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38855,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38839\/revisions\/38855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}