{"id":28,"date":"2011-07-24T00:00:52","date_gmt":"2011-07-24T07:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=28"},"modified":"2016-02-17T21:11:46","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T04:11:46","slug":"the-party-of-no-no-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=28","title":{"rendered":"The Party of No, No, No"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some things never change. The debt ceiling talks breakdown this past week reminds me of a Pic of the Week photo-toon from February 6, 2009 at the beginning of Obama&#8217;s first term as President.\u00a0 You see, according to Republicans, the definition of bi-partisanship is doing exactly what <em>they<\/em> want. Of course, it looks like Obama, like every other Democrat except Alan Grayson and Al Franken, is going to do a submissive roll to these whiny, sucky crybabies.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_29\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?attachment_id=29\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-29\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29\" title=\"GOP Crybabies\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/GOPcrybabies.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/GOPcrybabies.jpg 550w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/GOPcrybabies-300x211.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 85vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Whiny, sucky, &#8216;bipartisan&#8217; GOP congressmen and senators do what they do best.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some things never change. The debt ceiling talks breakdown this past week reminds me of a Pic of the Week photo-toon from February 6, 2009 at the beginning of Obama&#8217;s first term as President.\u00a0 You see, according to Republicans, the definition of bi-partisanship is doing exactly what they want. Of course, it looks like Obama, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=28\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Party of No, No, No&#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":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,60,1268,8,3],"tags":[10,9,98,11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28"}],"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=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}