{"id":2023,"date":"2006-10-17T10:03:57","date_gmt":"2006-10-17T16:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/loco\/gas-attack\/"},"modified":"2006-10-17T10:03:57","modified_gmt":"2006-10-17T16:03:57","slug":"gas-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/loco\/gas-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Gas Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"mine\"><p>On the Republican noise machine&#8217;s gassy discharge regarding Gary King&#8217;s voting record, we need some information:<\/p>\n<p>Do other legislators ever miss votes? What&#8217;s the average? Has Heather Wilson ever missed a single vote? How many votes missed are unforgivable? (Answer: one more than the those missed by whoever Republicans support.)<\/p>\n<p>What was Gary King doing when he missed a vote? Was he in Scotland on a junket? Was he eating a free meal with Tom DeLay at Abramoff&#8217;s restaurant? Was he drilling for oil in the wilderness?<\/p>\n<p>Which votes did he miss? The bills to name our state question, state dish, state dessert? The non-binding endorsement of apple pie and babies? The bill to write discrimination into the Constitution (aka the Defense of Marriage Act)? The &#8220;Only Republicans Know What Family Values Are&#8221; Act?<\/p>\n<p>Inquiring minds want more than noise. <span class=\"sig\">mjh<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the Republican noise machine&#8217;s gassy discharge regarding Gary King&#8217;s voting record, we need some information: Do other legislators ever miss votes? What&#8217;s the average? Has Heather Wilson ever missed a single vote? How many votes missed are unforgivable? (Answer: one more than the those missed by whoever Republicans support.) What was Gary King doing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/loco\/gas-attack\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gas Attack<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-loco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}