{"id":2197,"date":"2010-09-23T10:51:48","date_gmt":"2010-09-23T17:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2010\/09\/23\/pass-the-lipstick-please\/"},"modified":"2010-09-23T10:51:48","modified_gmt":"2010-09-23T17:51:48","slug":"pass-the-lipstick-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2010\/09\/pass-the-lipstick-please\/","title":{"rendered":"pass the lipstick please"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/gopagenda.pdf\">GOP Agenda &#8211; A Pledge To America<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I  don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s enough lipstick in Washington to make this pig look  good.  It doesn&#8217;t mention death taxes, it uses weasel words about  border security, it says they&#8217;ll put us on a path to balancing the  budget without actually calling f<span class=\"text_exposed_hide\"><\/span><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">or  a balanced budget, and they promise to give us 3 days to digest and  respond to their thousand page bills.  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">It looks dressed up to appeal to  constitutional fundamentalists without actually saying much to hold the  GOP to.  And this morph of the Declaration of Independence from a document stating the  foundation for our right to change our system of government, to a  justification for making policy changes within our existing government,  is just repugnant.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOP Agenda &#8211; A Pledge To America I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s enough lipstick in Washington to make this pig look good. It doesn&#8217;t mention death taxes, it uses weasel words about border security, it says they&#8217;ll put us on a path to balancing the budget without actually calling for a balanced budget, and they promise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2197","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-politics","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}