{"id":3038,"date":"2013-10-15T21:28:24","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T04:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=3038"},"modified":"2013-10-15T21:28:24","modified_gmt":"2013-10-16T04:28:24","slug":"the-fog-of-delusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=3038","title":{"rendered":"The Fog Of Delusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Republicans Holds America Hostage: Day 15&#8230;What?&#8230;Wait!&#8230;Day 15!!! Are you freaking kidding!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p title=\"Ben Carson: Obamacare worst thing \u2018since slavery\u2019\">Well, the GOP shutdown clusterf*ck continues with no end in sight. According to polls everywhere, <a title=\"Poll: Republicans' Handling Of Shutdown Gets Low Marks From 3 Out Of 4 Americans \" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/10\/14\/republicans-shutdown-poll_n_4098496.html\" target=\"_blank\">the Republicans are becoming less popular than syphilis<\/a>. But Teabagger Extraordinaire, Ted Cruz, remains not only optimistic, but downright gung-ho. You see, according <a title=\"Ted Cruz unskews devastating new poll \" href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2013\/10\/11\/ted_cruz_unskews_devastating_new_poll\/\" target=\"_blank\">to the No-class Cruzer&#8217;s polls<\/a>, the Teabagging Republicans are the most popular phenomenon since hula-hoops, transistor radios, crew cuts and slavery. Apparently, the right-wing bubble doesn&#8217;t permit 21st century reality to enter and is instead perpetually stuck in the 1950s or 1850s, take your pick. But have no fear America. Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann are here to guide us to the Rapture. Or as <a title=\"The end times are nigh, says Bachmann\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/msnbc\/the-end-times-are-nigh-says-bachmann\" target=\"_blank\">Bachmann put it, &#8220;Maranatha Come Lord Jesus, His day is at hand.&#8221;<\/a> Great! Just in time for Halloween!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3044\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3044\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?attachment_id=3044\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3044\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3044\" title=\"tedcrzteabaggersdelusional\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tedcruzteabaggersdelusional.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tedcruzteabaggersdelusional.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tedcruzteabaggersdelusional-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3044\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teabagger patriots Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann, assure Americans that all is swell in Teabaggerland.<\/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>Republicans Holds America Hostage: Day 15&#8230;What?&#8230;Wait!&#8230;Day 15!!! Are you freaking kidding!!! Well, the GOP shutdown clusterf*ck continues with no end in sight. According to polls everywhere, the Republicans are becoming less popular than syphilis. But Teabagger Extraordinaire, Ted Cruz, remains not only optimistic, but downright gung-ho. You see, according to the No-class Cruzer&#8217;s polls, the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=3038\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Fog Of Delusion&#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":[61,60,8,68,85,3,198],"tags":[72,252,69,22,20,389,27,783,9,787,781,21,601,231,596,19,788,47,48,784],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3038"}],"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=3038"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3050,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3038\/revisions\/3050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}