{"id":82967,"date":"2022-07-28T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82967"},"modified":"2022-07-28T10:42:22","modified_gmt":"2022-07-28T15:42:22","slug":"open-letter-to-rep-phillips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82967","title":{"rendered":"Open Letter to Rep. Phillips"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To:  The Hon. Rep.  Dean Phillips (MN-03)<br>From:  Mitch Berg, Irascible Peasant<br>Re:  Burning Daylilght, Bucko<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rep. Phillips.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You recently tweeted this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We\u2019ll soon be voting to bring great jobs back to America, mitigate inflation, reduce our debt, lower the price of prescriptions, and finally take steps to combat climate change. Would be pretty cool if our entire Congress decided to come together and show the world something.<\/p>&mdash; Rep. Dean Phillips \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@RepDeanPhillips) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepDeanPhillips\/status\/1552474750479470595?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 28, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Well that&#8217;s great.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I&#8217;ve got some questions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For starters:  you&#8217;ve had two years with control of the presidency and both chambers of Congress.  Why, 2.5 years into this period of complete control,  are you <em>suddenly<\/em> concerned with jobs leaving, prices rising, debt skyrocketing, the price of medicine and &#8220;climate change&#8221;? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Did you used to wait to do your school projects to 9PM the night before they were due?  Did your entire conference? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82929\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"82929\">as I asked your colleague Rep. Craig the other day<\/a> &#8211; what powers to you, a Congressperson, have to affect any of those issues via your votes?   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To: The Hon. Rep. Dean Phillips (MN-03)From: Mitch Berg, Irascible PeasantRe: Burning Daylilght, Bucko Rep. Phillips. You recently tweeted this: Well that&#8217;s great. But I&#8217;ve got some questions. For starters: you&#8217;ve had two years with control of the presidency and both chambers of Congress. Why, 2.5 years into this period of complete control, are you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-mn-congressional"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82967","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=82967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82968,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82967\/revisions\/82968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}