{"id":639,"date":"2010-11-04T23:46:43","date_gmt":"2010-11-04T17:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/?p=639"},"modified":"2010-11-04T23:46:43","modified_gmt":"2010-11-04T17:46:43","slug":"on-the-republicans-return-to-power-the-empire-strikes-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/11\/04\/on-the-republicans-return-to-power-the-empire-strikes-back\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Republicans Return to Power: The Empire Strikes Back!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After all the blathering about the midterms elections (&#8220;Let&#8217;s Dumb Down America Now!&#8221;), at least one of the news sites should have led with the headline, &#8220;The Empire Strikes Back!&#8221; The least they could do. Boehner is a Darth Vader with orange makeup, and hats off to Mitch McConnell, who essentially embodies the corruption of his party by stating his goal (as legislator) to be ensuring Obama is a one-term president. How&#8217;s that for cooperation?<br \/>\nMcConnell is a no-chin wonder that makes dogs howl in pain when he walks down the street. He&#8217;s so ugly they should pixilate his image just to give the rest of us a break.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After all the blathering about the midterms elections (&#8220;Let&#8217;s Dumb Down America Now!&#8221;), at least one of the news sites should have led with the headline, &#8220;The Empire Strikes Back!&#8221; The least they could do. Boehner is a Darth Vader &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/11\/04\/on-the-republicans-return-to-power-the-empire-strikes-back\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}