{"id":5125,"date":"2012-08-30T08:44:34","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T14:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=5125"},"modified":"2012-08-30T08:44:34","modified_gmt":"2012-08-30T14:44:34","slug":"like-any-bully-republicans-will-trip-you-and-call-you-clumsy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/like-any-bully-republicans-will-trip-you-and-call-you-clumsy\/","title":{"rendered":"Like any bully, Republicans will trip you and call you clumsy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/post-partisan\/post\/condoleezza-rice-outshines-paul-ryan\/2012\/08\/30\/456c8ae6-f257-11e1-adc6-87dfa8eff430_blog.html?wprss=rss_ej-dionne\">Condoleezza Rice outshines Paul Ryan &#8211; PostPartisan &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a> by EJ Dionne<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>[Ryan] has clearly picked up the Romney campaign\u2019s habit of playing fast and loose with facts. For example, he declared of President Obama, \u201cHe created a bipartisan debt commission. They came back with an urgent report. He thanked them, sent them on their way, and then did exactly nothing.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><font style=\"background-color: #ffc000\">Somehow, Ryan said not a word about the fact that he was himself a member of the commission and that he voted against its report, one reason it did not get the votes it needed to for adoption.<\/font> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/post-partisan\/post\/condoleezza-rice-outshines-paul-ryan\/2012\/08\/30\/456c8ae6-f257-11e1-adc6-87dfa8eff430_blog.html?wprss=rss_ej-dionne\">Condoleezza Rice outshines Paul Ryan &#8211; PostPartisan &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s more fact-checking (calling out Ryan\u2019s <strong>lies<\/strong>) at the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Condoleezza Rice outshines Paul Ryan &#8211; PostPartisan &#8211; The Washington Post by EJ Dionne [Ryan] has clearly picked up the Romney campaign\u2019s habit of playing fast and loose with facts. For example, he declared of President Obama, \u201cHe created a bipartisan debt commission. They came back with an urgent report. He thanked them, sent them &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/like-any-bully-republicans-will-trip-you-and-call-you-clumsy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Like any bully, Republicans will trip you and call you clumsy<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5125","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=5125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5126,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5125\/revisions\/5126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}