{"id":3058,"date":"2013-10-19T20:45:47","date_gmt":"2013-10-20T03:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=3058"},"modified":"2013-10-19T20:45:47","modified_gmt":"2013-10-20T03:45:47","slug":"gops-pyrrhic-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=3058","title":{"rendered":"GOP&#8217;s Pyrrhic Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, Congress finally made a deal to fund the government and increase the debt limit, which was clearly a victory for President Obama and the Democrats. Right? Not so fast, America. Shutdown architect and smuggest Senator alive, <a title=\"Ted Cruz Blames Senate GOP For 'Bombing Our Own Troops' In The House\" href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/livewire\/cruz-effort-to-defund-obamacare-incredible-victory\" target=\"_blank\">Ted Cruz, declared that the shutdown was a great victory<\/a>&#8230;for the Republicans???!!! Ah yes! The delusion continues&#8230;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3062\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3062\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?attachment_id=3062\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3062\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3062\" title=\"tedcruzwashingtondcdestruction\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tedcruzwashingtondcdestruction.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tedcruzwashingtondcdestruction.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tedcruzwashingtondcdestruction-300x229.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3062\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teabagger patriot and smuggest Senator alive, Ted Cruz, basks in the glow of his recent accomplishments.<\/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>On Wednesday, Congress finally made a deal to fund the government and increase the debt limit, which was clearly a victory for President Obama and the Democrats. Right? Not so fast, America. Shutdown architect and smuggest Senator alive, Ted Cruz, declared that the shutdown was a great victory&#8230;for the Republicans???!!! Ah yes! The delusion continues&#8230;<!-- 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":[252,69,237,22,20,389,27,783,793,107,9,787,781,21,43,601,98,596,19,788,47,48,784,482],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3058"}],"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=3058"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3064,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3058\/revisions\/3064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}