{"id":8835,"date":"2018-09-07T07:19:14","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T11:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=8835"},"modified":"2018-09-07T07:19:14","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T11:19:14","slug":"stifling-my-gag-reflex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=8835","title":{"rendered":"Stifling my gag-reflex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps I have an overly-sensitive gag-reflex, but Republicans&#8217; pious indignation at that anonymous <i>New York Times<\/i> editorial &#8212; That coward should have come and told us about the problems! &#8212; is triggering it like a semi-automatic.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Did Republicans care about Trump&#8217;s cynical misuse and torment of the DACA kids?<\/p>\n<li>\n<p>Did Republicans care about the separation of families at the border?<\/p>\n<li>\n<p>Do Republicans care about Trump&#8217;s sustained and relentless attacks against the Justice Department?<\/p>\n<li>\n<p>Do Republicans care about the relentless attacks against the FBI?<\/p>\n<li>\n<p>Do Republicans care about the relentless attacks against our intelligence agencies?<\/p>\n<li>\n<p>Do Republicans care that Trump condemned the prosecution of Congressmen because it may affect party balance in the House of Representatives?<\/p>\n<li>\n<p>Do Republicans care that Trump cozies-up to tyrants and attacks this country&#8217;s oldest friends?<\/p>\n<li>\n<p>Do Republicans care about Kevin Nunes&#8217; blatant crippling of the House Intelligence Committee?<\/ul>\n<p>No.  No, no, no, no, no, no, and &#8230; no.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m thinking that Anonymous probably has no confidence that Congress will honor its plain obligations, and is looking toward the American people to force Congress to do its duty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps I have an overly-sensitive gag-reflex, but Republicans&#8217; pious indignation at that anonymous New York Times editorial &#8212; That coward should have come and told us about the problems! &#8212; is triggering it like a semi-automatic. Did Republicans care about &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=8835\">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":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8835"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8835"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8839,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8835\/revisions\/8839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}