{"id":2534,"date":"2012-12-24T22:05:37","date_gmt":"2012-12-25T05:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=2534"},"modified":"2015-10-01T17:44:37","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T00:44:37","slug":"an-oompa-loompa-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=2534","title":{"rendered":"An Oompa Loompa Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, Congress has adjourned for the holidays and surprise surprise, no progress on the looming &#8216;fiscal cliff&#8217;. Speaker of the House, John Boehner (pronounced bo-ner), who seems to be under the illusion that the Republicans won the election, has stubbornly insisted that he gets his way. That means keeping his precious tax cuts for his rich handlers and cutting funds for the social safety net programs like Social Security and Medicare, which benefits most elderly Americans. Of course, most people seem to <a title=\"The &quot;Fiscal Cliff&quot; Is a Hoax ... and a Mel Brooks Routine\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/rj-eskow\/the-fiscal-cliff-is-a-hoa_b_2127186.html\" target=\"_blank\">think this &#8216;fiscal cliff&#8217; is baloney anyway<\/a> (note how it&#8217;s always referenced in quotations) and to President Obama&#8217;s credit, he&#8217;s playing hardball with the Republicans (finally!). It&#8217;s not the first time that the great <a title=\"Rep. Oompa Loompa\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=56\" target=\"_blank\">Oompa Loompa of negativity<\/a>, John Boehner, has bungled up negotiations. It&#8217;s business as usual for the Republicans.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2541\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2541\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?attachment_id=2541\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2541\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2541\" title=\"boehneroompaloompafiscalcliff\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/boehneroompaloompafiscalcliff.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"607\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/boehneroompaloompafiscalcliff.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/boehneroompaloompafiscalcliff-247x300.jpg 247w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2541\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Republican Speaker of the House and Chief Oompa Loompa, John Boehner, offers Americans his prescription for avoiding the &#8216;fiscal cliff&#8217;.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, Congress has adjourned for the holidays and surprise surprise, no progress on the looming &#8216;fiscal cliff&#8217;. Speaker of the House, John Boehner (pronounced bo-ner), who seems to be under the illusion that the Republicans won the election, has stubbornly insisted that he gets his way. That means keeping his precious tax cuts for his &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=2534\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;An Oompa Loompa Christmas&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1175,61,60,8,85,3],"tags":[16,237,10,22,20,389,27,710,9,711,21,43,17,709,98,19,373],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2534"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2534"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4300,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2534\/revisions\/4300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}