{"id":2686,"date":"2013-06-18T22:07:36","date_gmt":"2013-06-19T05:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=2686"},"modified":"2019-05-30T16:46:52","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T23:46:52","slug":"congress-is-great-at-sucking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=2686","title":{"rendered":"Congress Is Great&#8230;At Sucking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that our congress has reached a new level of ineptitude. According to recent polls, congressional approval is down to <a title=\"Americans' Confidence in Congress Falls to Lowest on Record\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/163052\/americans-confidence-congress-falls-lowest-record.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">10% in a Gallup poll<\/a> and <a title=\"Congress Approval Poll Shows Only 6 Percent Rate Lawmakers Good Or Excellent \" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/06\/05\/congress-approval_n_3390566.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">11% in a recent Rasmussen poll<\/a>. Of course, this is to be expected since our Congress is made up of jellyfish (Democrats) and crybabies (Republicans). This says a lot about Americans as well. It&#8217;s been this way for some time and yet we continually send these same clowns back to Washington instead of sending new faces with fresh ideas from other parties. It&#8217;s like a certain segment of our population is comfortable with this clearly dysfunctional representation. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Maybe for the next election, we should try electing <strong>new people<\/strong> and <strong>new parties<\/strong> in Washington.<\/p>\n<p class=\"size-full wp-image-2689\" title=\"uscongress2013\">At least our bought-off-and-paid-for-corporate-loving congress has agreed on a bipartisan message for all us Americans who aren&#8217;t a corporation.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2689\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2689\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?attachment_id=2689\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2689\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2689\" title=\"uscongress2013\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/uscongress2013.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/uscongress2013.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/uscongress2013-214x300.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2689\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The United States congress has finally come together for a special message to the non-corporate American electorate.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\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>It appears that our congress has reached a new level of ineptitude. According to recent polls, congressional approval is down to 10% in a Gallup poll and 11% in a recent Rasmussen poll. Of course, this is to be expected since our Congress is made up of jellyfish (Democrats) and crybabies (Republicans). This says a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=2686\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Congress Is Great&#8230;At Sucking&#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":[61,60,1268,8,85,3],"tags":[237,10,22,20,27,107,9,739,21,19,738,11,741,740],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2686"}],"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=2686"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6763,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2686\/revisions\/6763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}