{"id":599,"date":"2009-06-29T09:35:16","date_gmt":"2009-06-29T13:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=599"},"modified":"2009-06-29T09:35:16","modified_gmt":"2009-06-29T13:35:16","slug":"republican-congress-critters-for-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/energy\/republican-congress-critters-for-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Congress Critters for sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The old joke is that a &#8220;Honest Politician&#8221; was one that would stay bought.<\/p>\n<p>Eight Republican members of congress proved they were for sale by breaking party ranks and voting for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/EWW\/polyticks\/democrats.html\">democrat<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;Cap &#038; Tax&#8221; scheme. <\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s be honest here, the &#8220;Cap &#038; Tax&#8221; scheme isn&#8217;t about the environment and it certainly won&#8217;t create jobs.  It will make the poor poorer and Al &#8220;manbearpig&#8221; Gore (owner of a mansion and a yacht) even richer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/blogs\/beltway-confidential\/Republicans-who-helped-pass-cap-and-trade-benefitted-from-environmental-donations-49385812.html\">The Washington Examiner points out<\/a> just who paid them off and how much it took to buy their vote. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/michellemalkin.com\/2009\/06\/26\/the-8-cap-and-tax-republicans\/\">Stop by Michelle Malkin&#8217;s site<\/a> for a good graphic showing the traitorous eight.  Anybody running against them in a primary would be a good person to donate to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The old joke is that a &#8220;Honest Politician&#8221; was one that would stay bought. Eight Republican members of congress proved they were for sale by breaking party ranks and voting for the democrat&#8216;s &#8220;Cap &#038; Tax&#8221; scheme. Let&#8217;s be honest here, the &#8220;Cap &#038; Tax&#8221; scheme isn&#8217;t about the environment and it certainly won&#8217;t create [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[7,8,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-environment","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab4zg-9F","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}