{"id":523,"date":"2013-10-04T20:32:55","date_gmt":"2013-10-04T20:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arts-attic.com\/blog\/?p=523"},"modified":"2017-01-07T18:59:55","modified_gmt":"2017-01-07T18:59:55","slug":"speaker-boehner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/arts-attic.com\/blog\/?p=523","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Boehner!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The minority party needs to sit down and shut up!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>No matter who says this it certainly ain&#8217;t the way to build a consensus.<\/p>\n<p>Shutting down the government until you can eliminate legislation that has already been passed and signed into law isn&#8217;t governing, it&#8217;s blackmail.  Just the same as when a strong union of employees hold up their employer to unreasonable demands.<\/p>\n<p>You and your party need to come back from the edge of the cliff.  The GOP&#8217;s public discourse has become more and more unreasoned even crazy.  Our form of government takes into account the will of the people being governed and is designed to prevent a very few from imposing their own will on the majority.  Give the treasury the ability to continue paying for the stuff you&#8217;ve already bought including that off the books war you waged, go home and take a close hard look in the mirror.  Then look at real world accounting and start picking ideas that really work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The minority party needs to sit down and shut up!&#8221; No matter who says this it certainly ain&#8217;t the way to build a consensus. Shutting down the government until you can eliminate legislation that has already been passed and signed &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/arts-attic.com\/blog\/?p=523\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thinkingoutloud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/arts-attic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/arts-attic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/arts-attic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arts-attic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arts-attic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/arts-attic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1565,"href":"http:\/\/arts-attic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions\/1565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/arts-attic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arts-attic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arts-attic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}