{"id":459,"date":"2005-09-08T23:12:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-08T23:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=459"},"modified":"2005-09-08T23:12:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-08T23:12:00","slug":"compassionate-conservatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/compassionate-conservatives\/","title":{"rendered":"[Compassionate conservatives]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know what they were thinking, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oliverwillis.com\/2005\/09\/08\/team-hate-america\/\" target=\"_blank\">these 11 assholes<\/a> voted against the $51 billion aid package for Katrina victims. Republicans, every single one of them. <\/p>\n<p>So far I&#8217;ve heard two explanations for their nays: <\/p>\n<p>1. The Louisiana and New Orleans governments are far too corrupt to be trusted with this much money.<\/p>\n<p>2. This handout will go willy-nilly to organizations and businesses and firms with no accountability for how they are spending it. <\/p>\n<p>Yes, this is precisely the time to be frugal and stingy with government giveaways. Those selfish, greedy evacuees and their demands! <\/p>\n<p>But let the good times roll when crafting an energy bill that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/07\/29\/AR2005072901128.html\" target=\"_blank\">further pads the gold-encrusted wallets of Big Oil<\/a>. Hey, but two of these esteemed representatives (Flake and Paul) voted against the energy bill. (Vote roster <a href=\"http:\/\/clerk.house.gov\/evs\/2005\/roll132.xml\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>The rest? Well, they just like to give money to corporations, I guess.  <\/p>\n<p>Fuck the people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know what they were thinking, but these 11 assholes voted against the $51 billion aid package for Katrina victims. Republicans, every single one of them. So far I&#8217;ve heard two explanations for their nays: 1. The Louisiana and New Orleans governments are far too corrupt to be trusted with this much money. 2. This handout will go willy-nilly to organizations and businesses and firms with no accountability for how they are spending it.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jWWl-7p","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}