{"id":13730,"date":"2014-02-27T18:48:18","date_gmt":"2014-02-28T01:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=13730"},"modified":"2014-02-27T18:48:35","modified_gmt":"2014-02-28T01:48:35","slug":"stop-the-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2014\/02\/27\/stop-the-madness\/","title":{"rendered":"stop the madness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theolympian.com\/2014\/02\/23\/3001863\/hastings-not-swayed-by-whims-of.html\">Things to ponder<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>But Hastings, who announced recently that he won&#8217;t seek re-election after 10 terms, leaves a much more polarized Congress than he entered.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s, um, with the &#8220;Republican Revolution&#8221; of 1994.\u00c2\u00a0 Which was all cream puffs, if I recall right.<\/p>\n<p><em>He was rated the House&#8217;s 72nd most conservative member by the National Journal in 2009, just before the tea party wave election of 2010. By 2013, he was ranked 175th most conservative.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hey.\u00c2\u00a0 Let&#8217;s compare the political climate of the House for other retiring Representatives&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/opinion\/sns-201402271700--tms--poltodayctnyq-a20140227-20140227,0,3979825.column\">John Dingell<\/a>, who&#8230; has been there for&#8230; a while.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 1px; height: 1px; color: #000000; font: 10pt sans-serif; text-align: left; text-transform: none; overflow: hidden;\">Read more here: http:\/\/www.theolympian.com\/2014\/02\/23\/3001863\/hastings-not-swayed-by-whims-of.html#storylink=cpy<\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 1px; height: 1px; color: #000000; font: 10pt sans-serif; text-align: left; text-transform: none; overflow: hidden;\">Read more here: http:\/\/www.theolympian.com\/2014\/02\/23\/3001863\/hastings-not-swayed-by-whims-of.html#storylink=cpy<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things to ponder. But Hastings, who announced recently that he won&#8217;t seek re-election after 10 terms, leaves a much more polarized Congress than he entered. That&#8217;s, um, with the &#8220;Republican Revolution&#8221; of 1994.\u00c2\u00a0 Which was all cream puffs, if I recall right. He was rated the House&#8217;s 72nd most conservative member by the National Journal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doc-hastings-and-the-4th-congressional-district-of-washington-state","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13730","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=13730"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13732,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13730\/revisions\/13732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}