{"id":5353,"date":"2009-09-05T07:28:51","date_gmt":"2009-09-05T12:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5353"},"modified":"2009-09-05T22:30:31","modified_gmt":"2009-09-06T03:30:31","slug":"when-the-only-tool-you-have","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5353","title":{"rendered":"When The Only Tool You Have"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;is a teleprompter, and\u00a0independents, Republicans a public majority and a growing faction of your party is against you, what do you do?<\/p>\n<p>Give another speech? &#8230;to my <em>kids<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>Obama has lost contact with the American people and is soon to be floating in a political vacuum&#8230;talking to himself.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601070&#038;sid=a5HawfX.Mxt8\">We gave Congress a charge<\/a>, we gave them broad outlines, which is the reason we are farther along than any of the five presidents that have tried,\u201d [Rahm] Emanuel said in an interview yesterday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>By what <em>measure<\/em>? Americans are five times more pissed off at their government? The unsubmitted bill used five times times more paper?<\/p>\n<p>Rahm is in a state of stupor.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe\u2019re not there yet, and this speech is intended to finish the job.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;I guess we&#8217;ll see what <em>or who<\/em> will be finished. When a thug from Chicago says &#8220;finish the job&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;is a teleprompter, and\u00a0independents, Republicans a public majority and a growing faction of your party is against you, what do you do? Give another speech? &#8230;to my kids? Obama has lost contact with the American people and is soon to be floating in a political vacuum&#8230;talking to himself. \u201cWe gave Congress a charge, we gave [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-president-obama","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5353","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\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}