{"id":39089,"date":"2013-10-18T07:39:56","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T12:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=39089"},"modified":"2013-10-18T07:39:56","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T12:39:56","slug":"im-going-to-pull-this-car-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=39089","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Going To Pull This Car Over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>All of you &#8220;The GOP Let Us Down, Why Should We Ever Support Them Again?&#8221; types<\/strong>: \u00a0 To quote LTCDR Montgomery Scott, &#8220;you can&#8217;t change the laws of physics&#8221;. \u00a0Or the Constitution, in this case. \u00a0The Republicans &#8211; RINOs, Tea Partiers, Cruzes and Boehners alike &#8211; control one chamber of the Congress. \u00a0The Dems have the other one, and the Presidency. \u00a0<em>No law is going to be changed while we are the minority<\/em>. \u00a0The best we can hope for is to stall some of the Dems&#8217; plans until, hopefully, somehow, someday, we get majorities in both chambers and the Presidency. \u00a0Someday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>All of you &#8220;What has Ted Cruz gotten us?&#8221; folks<\/strong>: \u00a0Hopefully, a sense from the base that there are some people on Capitol Hill who aren&#8217;t cowed by the system, and among independents that\u00a0<em>someone\u00a0<\/em>is publicly bucking against the insurance plan that&#8217;s jacking their rates up through the ceiling.<\/p>\n<p>Remember the 2012 election? \u00a0When the GOP base and not a whole lot else came out to vote, tepidly, for Mitt Romney and the guy who should have been the candidate? \u00a0That&#8217;s what going along and being polite and playing the Beltway&#8217;s game the beltway&#8217;s way gets us.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To Both Of You<\/strong>: \u00a0Not a single concession? \u00a0After all that? \u00a0Are you kidding me?<\/p>\n<p>More Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All of you &#8220;The GOP Let Us Down, Why Should We Ever Support Them Again?&#8221; types: \u00a0 To quote LTCDR Montgomery Scott, &#8220;you can&#8217;t change the laws of physics&#8221;. \u00a0Or the Constitution, in this case. \u00a0The Republicans &#8211; RINOs, Tea Partiers, Cruzes and Boehners alike &#8211; control one chamber of the Congress. \u00a0The Dems have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,13],"tags":[266],"class_list":["post-39089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatism","category-republicans","tag-shutdownpocalypse-2013"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39089","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=39089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39092,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39089\/revisions\/39092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}