{"id":13636,"date":"2014-01-27T19:13:05","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T02:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=13636"},"modified":"2014-01-27T19:13:29","modified_gmt":"2014-01-28T02:13:29","slug":"for-comparisons-sake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2014\/01\/27\/for-comparisons-sake\/","title":{"rendered":"for comparison&#8217;s sake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is Steve Stockman &#8220;hiking the Appalachia Trail?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Is that an irresponsible question, even as the whole controversy surrounding the old South Carolina governor and now Congress-critter began with the same question of &#8220;Where the Hell is this guy?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yes, probably&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, either fortunately or unfortunately, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/reliable-source\/wp\/2014\/01\/27\/the-strange-case-of-the-missing-or-not-congressman\/\">he turned up at Breitbart<\/a> for a quick tweet, and that is that.<\/p>\n<p>In other news&#8230; hey!\u00c2\u00a0 Remember when everyone was clamoring for Bill Clinton to be censured.\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/politics\/sen-john-mccain-censured-arizona-gop-article-1.1592707\">Well someone just censured John McCain<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Is it irresponsible to link the two &#8220;censures&#8221; when they have nothing in common?\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em> McCain spokesman Brian Rogers declined to comment on the censure. But former three-term Sen. Jon Kyl told The Arizona Republic that the move was &#8220;wacky.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n<em>&#8220;I&#8217;ve gone to dozens of these meetings and every now and then some wacky resolution gets passed,&#8221; Kyl told the newspaper on Saturday. &#8220;But most people realize it does not represent the majority of the vast numbers of Republicans.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Kyl also said McCain&#8217;s voting record was &#8220;very conservative.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Severely&#8221; is the word you&#8217;re supposed to use to get back into the good graces of the activists&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is Steve Stockman &#8220;hiking the Appalachia Trail?&#8221; Is that an irresponsible question, even as the whole controversy surrounding the old South Carolina governor and now Congress-critter began with the same question of &#8220;Where the Hell is this guy?&#8221; Yes, probably&#8230; Anyway, either fortunately or unfortunately, he turned up at Breitbart for a quick tweet, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13636"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13640,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13636\/revisions\/13640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}