{"id":2758,"date":"2013-08-15T19:43:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-16T02:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=2758"},"modified":"2015-10-01T17:44:15","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T00:44:15","slug":"holding-the-nation-hostage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=2758","title":{"rendered":"Holding The Nation Hostage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"size-full wp-image-2760\" title=\"boehnerunclesamhostage\">Speaker of the House John Boehner, (pronounced bo-ner), and <a title=\"House GOP Votes To Repeal Obamacare For 40th Time\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/08\/02\/gop-obamacare-vote_n_3695871.html\" target=\"_blank\">the House Republicans recently voted to repeal Obamacare for the the 40th time<\/a>. The new GOP plan is something akin to holding the government hostage: <a title=\"New Conservative Plan: Repeal Obamacare or We'll Default on the National Debt\" href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/moneybox\/2013\/08\/15\/obamacare_debt_ceiling_the_new_hostage_crisis.html\" target=\"_blank\">repeal Obamacare or we&#8217;ll shut down the government<\/a>. If there was any doubt that the Republicans have been nothing but whiny, sucky, crybaby obstructionists, then this should chisel it in stone. Even Super Neocon Newt Gingrich said that Republicans<a title=\"Newt Gingrich: Republicans Rip Obamacare, but Have \u2018Zero Answer\u2019 for Alternatives\" href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/blogs\/politics\/2013\/08\/newt-gingrich-republicans-rip-obamacare-but-have-zero-answer-for-alternatives\/\" target=\"_blank\"> rip Obamacare but have no alternatives to it<\/a>. Ahh yes! The party of No continues it reign of terror in Congress. There&#8217;s nothing more patriotic than that.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2760\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2760\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?attachment_id=2760\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2760\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2760\" title=\"boehnerunclesamhostage\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/boehnerunclesamhostage.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/boehnerunclesamhostage.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/boehnerunclesamhostage-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2760\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Speaker of the House and Chief Oompa Loompa, John Boehner, reveals the GOP&#8217;s patriotic plan to save America from the horrors of Obamacare.<\/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>Speaker of the House John Boehner, (pronounced bo-ner), and the House Republicans recently voted to repeal Obamacare for the the 40th time. The new GOP plan is something akin to holding the government hostage: repeal Obamacare or we&#8217;ll shut down the government. If there was any doubt that the Republicans have been nothing but whiny, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=2758\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Holding The Nation Hostage&#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":[1175,61,60,8,3],"tags":[16,10,22,20,389,27,46,9,763,739,21,43,17,709,98,596,19],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758"}],"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=2758"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4299,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758\/revisions\/4299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}