{"id":6485,"date":"2013-10-17T10:47:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T16:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=6485"},"modified":"2013-10-17T10:42:26","modified_gmt":"2013-10-17T16:42:26","slug":"a-pox-on-the-bat-filled-attic-of-just-one-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/a-pox-on-the-bat-filled-attic-of-just-one-house\/","title":{"rendered":"A pox on the bat-filled attic of just one house"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve heard several people say \u201ca pox on both their houses,\u201d equating the roles of left and right or House and Senate in our delayed but unresolved political crisis. There are idiots in every group of people. However, it takes two to tango but both have to want to dance. <\/p>\n<p>Responsibility for our ongoing crisis starts with the voters who elected the lunatic fringe, as well as those loonies. Further responsibility belongs to John Boehner for not having the gumption to stand up to a few foaming mouth-breathers. Further responsibility belongs to the rest of the Republican majority of the House for being frightened by the loonies and their deep-pocket backers. Unprincipled cowards all.<\/p>\n<p>When you say \u201ca pox on both their houses,\u201d you have handed victory to those who hate government and will do everything they can to undermine it. Don\u2019t let them win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve heard several people say \u201ca pox on both their houses,\u201d equating the roles of left and right or House and Senate in our delayed but unresolved political crisis. There are idiots in every group of people. However, it takes two to tango but both have to want to dance. Responsibility for our ongoing crisis &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/a-pox-on-the-bat-filled-attic-of-just-one-house\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A pox on the bat-filled attic of just one house<\/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":[16,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election","category-nada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6485","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=6485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6486,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6485\/revisions\/6486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}