{"id":3684,"date":"2014-11-25T23:32:24","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T06:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=3684"},"modified":"2014-12-01T18:47:09","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T01:47:09","slug":"treat-em-like-polly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=3684","title":{"rendered":"Treat &#8216;Em Like Polly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"size-full wp-image-3689\" title=\"tipsondealingwithrepublicans\">As usual, the Republican Fear and Noise Machine is in overdrive since Obama has boldly come out fighting after the election. Obama has pushed for <a title=\"Obama Urges FCC to Recognize Internet Access as a Utility\" href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/future_tense\/2014\/11\/10\/obama_supports_net_neutrality_asks_fcc_to_recognize_internet_access_as_a.html\" target=\"_blank\">keeping net neutrality<\/a>, voting against the Keystone pipeline (it didn&#8217;t pass the Senate this past week), and the big news in the past week, <a title=\"Your complete guide to Obama\u2019s immigration executive action\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/wonkblog\/wp\/2014\/11\/19\/your-complete-guide-to-obamas-immigration-order\/\" target=\"_blank\">an executive order for comprehensive immigration reform<\/a>. The GOP is fit to be tied. Of course it doesn&#8217;t matter that <a title=\"GOP panel on Benghazi finds no Obama administration wrongdoing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/world\/africa\/la-fg-house-benghazi-20141123-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">a GOP investigative committee found no wrongdoing by the Obama administration in Benghazi<\/a>. Speaker of the House, John Boehner (pronounced boner), <a title=\"Boehner: I'm ready to 'reappoint' members to special Benghazi panel in new Congress\" href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/boehner---i-m-ready-to--re-appoint--members-to-special-benghazi-panel-in-new-congress-001822450.html\" target=\"_blank\">had announced that they&#8217;ll pursue another investigation with a committee that he will select<\/a>. How is a sane person to deal with these Republican shenanigans? We think the pet care world has an appropriate answer for dealing with the fearmongering, conservative Republican in your life. Just use the following tactic at Thanksgiving dinner if your Republican gets going on a rant.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3689\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3689\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?attachment_id=3689\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3689\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3689\" title=\"tipsondealingwithrepublicans\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tipsondealingwithrepublicans.jpg\" alt=\"If the fearmongering conservative Republican in your life keeps acting up, just throw a sheet over him, like you do Polly.\" width=\"500\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tipsondealingwithrepublicans.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tipsondealingwithrepublicans-250x300.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3689\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The pet care world provides an answer for dealing with the fearmongering, conservative Republican in your life.<\/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>As usual, the Republican Fear and Noise Machine is in overdrive since Obama has boldly come out fighting after the election. Obama has pushed for keeping net neutrality, voting against the Keystone pipeline (it didn&#8217;t pass the Senate this past week), and the big news in the past week, an executive order for comprehensive immigration &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=3684\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Treat &#8216;Em Like Polly&#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":[61,8,963,3,198],"tags":[947,968,967,252,22,20,27,955,948,4,9,592,575,21,970,964,966,98,596,577,188,19,969,965],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3684"}],"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=3684"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3699,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3684\/revisions\/3699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}