{"id":66446,"date":"2018-03-28T05:00:24","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T10:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=66446"},"modified":"2018-03-27T20:39:25","modified_gmt":"2018-03-28T01:39:25","slug":"pick-your-enemies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=66446","title":{"rendered":"Pick Your Enemies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Conservatives are throwing a tantrum.\u00a0 Trump is a complete failure and we\u2019re all doomed because <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2018\/03\/trump-fought-the-swamp-and-the-swamp-won.php\">he signed the horrible, no good, very bad budget bill<\/a>.\u00a0 Spending out of control!\u00a0 Mountain of debt!\u00a0 Economic collapse!\u00a0 Doom!<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, but where\u2019d he get the budget bill?\u00a0 From Congress, right?\u00a0\u00a0 And Republicans control the Congress, remember?\u00a0\u00a0 The Speaker of the House is Paul Ryan, R-Wisc and the Senate Majority Leader is Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky.\u00a0 If those schmucks passed the bill and sent it to Trump for signature, how is it his fault that the country is doomed?\u00a0 Why didn\u2019t they exercise a little fiscal restraint?<\/p>\n<p>Why is it Trump\u2019s job to battle Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, the Deep State, Democrats and, oh yeah, Republicans, too?<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Plenty of blame to go around, in my book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: &nbsp; Conservatives are throwing a tantrum.\u00a0 Trump is a complete failure and we\u2019re all doomed because he signed the horrible, no good, very bad budget bill.\u00a0 Spending out of control!\u00a0 Mountain of debt!\u00a0 Economic collapse!\u00a0 Doom! Yeah, but where\u2019d he get the budget bill?\u00a0 From Congress, right?\u00a0\u00a0 And Republicans [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66446","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=66446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66447,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66446\/revisions\/66447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}