{"id":3907,"date":"2012-12-13T08:32:10","date_gmt":"2012-12-13T12:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=3907"},"modified":"2012-12-13T08:32:10","modified_gmt":"2012-12-13T12:32:10","slug":"roundup-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/politics\/roundup-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/blogs\/print\/335506\">Today&#8217;s roundup post is by Jonah Goldberg<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/usnews.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2012\/12\/12\/15868303-sen-menendez-employed-intern-who-was-illegal-immigrant-sex-offender-ap-reports?lite\">Democratic senator<\/a>\u00a0hired an unpaid intern who was an undocumented immigrant but a\u00a0<em>documented<\/em>\u00a0sex offender. Apparently Senator Menendez needed an immigrant to do sex offending that Americans won\u2019t do.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Representative Jim Moran is \u201cembarrassed\u201d by the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtoncitypaper.com\/blogs\/citydesk\/2012\/12\/12\/rep-jim-morans-son-guilty-of-beating-up-his-girlfriend-in-columbia-heights\/\">revelation<\/a>\u00a0that his voter-fraud-orchestrating son smashed his girlfriend\u2019s face into a garbage can and pleaded guilty to assault. The girlfriend appears to be doing what she can to make the story go away. But don\u2019t worry, the phrase \u201cwar on women\u201d may still only be used to describe people who don\u2019t want to pay for someone else\u2019s birth control. No word if anyone on the left will be expressing their gratitude for the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/335095\/defense-dana-perino-charles-c-w-cooke\">Violence Against Women Act<\/a>\u00a0for this.<\/p>\n<p>Over in Michigan,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eclectablog.com\/2012\/12\/breaking-americans-for-prosperity-stages-phony-altercation-at-michigan-right-to-work-rally.html\">defenders<\/a>\u00a0of the union protestors who tore down an Americans for Prosperity tent are heading toward trutherism, suggesting that it was all a set up, the canvas-and-rope equivalent of the Reichstag fire. No word yet if anyone is claiming the Jews inside the tent got advance notice.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and after months \u2014 nay years \u2014 of rhetoric from the president and his proxies about how taxes are simply a sign of neighborliness and the dues we pay to live in this great country, we learn that Obama\u2019s staff owe nearly a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/335477\/fair-share-obama-staffers-owe-833970-back-taxes-daniel-foster\">million dollars in back taxes.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And the Republicans are losing to these guys.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pjmedia.com\/instapundit\/159570\/\">HT to Mr Reynolds<\/a>, who is correct in his\u00a0assessment. \u00a0 Just another example of how you would rarely loose money betting on Congressional Republicans to screw the pooch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s roundup post is by Jonah Goldberg: A\u00a0Democratic senator\u00a0hired an unpaid intern who was an undocumented immigrant but a\u00a0documented\u00a0sex offender. Apparently Senator Menendez needed an immigrant to do sex offending that Americans won\u2019t do. Meanwhile, Representative Jim Moran is \u201cembarrassed\u201d by the\u00a0revelation\u00a0that his voter-fraud-orchestrating son smashed his girlfriend\u2019s face into a garbage can and pleaded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[40,43,52,19,34],"tags":[238,251,262,414,479,480,481,486,491,621,748,829],"class_list":["post-3907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-culture-of-corruption-politics","category-bho-politics","category-politics","category-when-democrats-attack","tag-corruption","tag-culture-of-corruption","tag-democrat","tag-incompetent","tag-leftist-hate-speech","tag-leftist-hypocrisy","tag-leftist-violence","tag-liberal","tag-liberalism","tag-politics","tag-tax-cheat","tag-when-democrats-attack"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab4zg-111","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}