{"id":5387,"date":"2009-09-10T07:30:46","date_gmt":"2009-09-10T12:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5387"},"modified":"2009-09-10T07:30:46","modified_gmt":"2009-09-10T12:30:46","slug":"the-greatest-threat-ever-faced-by-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5387","title":{"rendered":"The Greatest Threat Ever Faced By Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Biden says <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20090910\/ap_on_go_pr_wh\/us_health_care_heckling\">B interrupting the President&#8217;s speech<\/a>\u00a0was <em>declasse&#8217;<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1252582014_0\" style=\"border-bottom: medium none; background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; cursor: hand\">Vice President Joe Biden<\/span> says a Republican congressman&#8217;s outburst during <span class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1252582014_1\" style=\"border-bottom: #0066cc 1px dashed; cursor: hand\">President Barack Obama<\/span>&#8216;s health-care speech Wednesday night &#8220;demeaned the institution.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1252582014_2\" style=\"border-bottom: #0066cc 1px dashed; cursor: hand\">South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson<\/span> shouted &#8220;You lie&#8221; after Obama said extending health care to all Americans would not mean insuring illegal immigrants.<\/p>\n<p>Appearing on ABC&#8217;s &#8220;Good Morning America&#8221; Thursday, Biden said the incident made him &#8220;embarrassed for the chamber and a Congress I love.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t be <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/research\/200502040014\">embarassing Congress with any of those outbursts<\/a>, or Joe Biden will clutch his pearls and say &#8220;tut-tut&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Dang Google.\u00a0 I keep searching for &#8220;biden clutching his pearls and tut-tutting over Dems booing during state of the union&#8221;, and get nothing.\u00a0 Google must be broken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biden says B interrupting the President&#8217;s speech\u00a0was declasse&#8217;: Vice President Joe Biden says a Republican congressman&#8217;s outburst during President Barack Obama&#8216;s health-care speech Wednesday night &#8220;demeaned the institution.&#8221; South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson shouted &#8220;You lie&#8221; after Obama said extending health care to all Americans would not mean insuring illegal immigrants. Appearing on ABC&#8217;s &#8220;Good [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5387","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=5387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}