{"id":2947,"date":"2013-09-21T02:48:22","date_gmt":"2013-09-21T09:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=2947"},"modified":"2013-09-21T02:48:23","modified_gmt":"2013-09-21T09:48:23","slug":"poor-wittle-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=2947","title":{"rendered":"Poor Wittle Baby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia GOP Representative Phil Gingrey whined recently in a meeting <a title=\"GOP Rep Whines That He's &quot;Stuck Here Making $172,000 a Year&quot;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/moneybox\/2013\/09\/18\/phil_gingrey_whines_i_m_stuck_here_making_172_000_a_year.html\" target=\"_blank\">about being stuck in Congress making $172k a year<\/a>, while his staff can go out and get rich as lobbyists. All together now&#8230;Aaaaahhhhhhh! Poor wittle Phillie Gingrey!!! He can&#8217;t make it on just $172,000 a year! This would normally just be another of the myriads of examples of crybaby Republicans not getting their way, but what makes this even more profoundly disturbing is that these so called &#8216;compassionate conservatives&#8217; <a title=\"House Republicans Pass Deep Cuts in Food Stamps\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/09\/20\/us\/politics\/house-passes-bill-cutting-40-billion-from-food-stamps.html?_r=1&amp;\" target=\"_blank\">just voted to cut funding for food stamps<\/a>. So to review from events this past week: House Republicans say we&#8217;ve got money to go to war in Syria, but no money to feed our own citizens. Yessirree, that Jesus-like compassion is shining right through.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2953\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2953\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?attachment_id=2953\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2953\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2953\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/gingreypoorcongressman.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/gingreypoorcongressman.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/gingreypoorcongressman-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2953\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOP Representative and well known pauper, Phil Gingrey, shows Jesus-like compassion for the poor and downtrodden.<\/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>Georgia GOP Representative Phil Gingrey whined recently in a meeting about being stuck in Congress making $172k a year, while his staff can go out and get rich as lobbyists. All together now&#8230;Aaaaahhhhhhh! Poor wittle Phillie Gingrey!!! He can&#8217;t make it on just $172,000 a year! This would normally just be another of the myriads &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=2947\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Poor Wittle Baby&#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":[61,60,8,68,85,3],"tags":[252,69,237,10,22,20,27,776,732,46,775,250,9,75,241,21,98,596,19],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2947"}],"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=2947"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2957,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2947\/revisions\/2957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}