{"id":6019,"date":"2009-11-06T18:01:59","date_gmt":"2009-11-06T23:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=6019"},"modified":"2009-11-06T18:03:30","modified_gmt":"2009-11-06T23:03:30","slug":"our-patrician-lords-and-masters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=6019","title":{"rendered":"Our Patrician Lords And Masters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Twin Cities media glitterati are getting their yuks over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5hkmpIcdUzKq9-EExT7Ue4nM2K-jQD9BQ8N881\">this bit here<\/a>\u00a0today; Barney Frank on Michele Bachmann&#8217;s 10,000 interlopers:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Democratic Rep. Barney Frank took a dig Friday at the Republican lawmaker who organized a protest by conservatives against health care legislation.Frank, a Massachusetts liberal, told an audience: &#8220;Some of the people (at the rally) that wanted to engage me in conversation appeared to have been the losers in the &#8216;Are you smarter than Michele Bachmann contest?&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s right, <em>hoi polloi<\/em>.\u00a0 Stay out in flyoverland, where you belong.\u00a0 Let your Patrician Lords and Masters do all the thinking for you.\u00a0 That&#8217;s why they have the eternal sinecures; the club membership that <em>never ever expires<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>(It&#8217;s why they need the Deluxe Congressional Healthcare plan; dealing with all of you sluggards is so stressful, the <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">mere prole<\/span> &#8220;public&#8221; plan won&#8217;t cut it!)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Rep. Bachmann, R-Minn., had organized Thursday&#8217;s rally attended by thousands of conservatives critical of the Democrats&#8217; health care plan. Her spokeswoman did not respond to requests for comment. Frank, who recently compared arguing with an angry voter to conversing with a dining room table, said this week&#8217;s protest was like being trapped inside a furniture warehouse.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How cool would it be if the voters of Massachussetts relieved Mr. Frank of the onerous duty of having to deal with all of us <em>troublesome effing peasants<\/em> for the rest of life?<\/p>\n<p>A guy can dream.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Twin Cities media glitterati are getting their yuks over this bit here\u00a0today; Barney Frank on Michele Bachmann&#8217;s 10,000 interlopers: Democratic Rep. Barney Frank took a dig Friday at the Republican lawmaker who organized a protest by conservatives against health care legislation.Frank, a Massachusetts liberal, told an audience: &#8220;Some of the people (at the rally) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6019","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=6019"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6021,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6019\/revisions\/6021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}