{"id":77,"date":"2005-10-15T15:14:01","date_gmt":"2005-10-15T21:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=77"},"modified":"2005-10-15T15:20:47","modified_gmt":"2005-10-15T21:20:47","slug":"demagogue-domenici","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/loco\/demagogue-domenici\/","title":{"rendered":"Demagogue Domenici"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"mine\"><p>When did Saint Pete become such a demagogue? This is the <\/p>\n<p>frequently used, shameless tactic of the Radical Right, to make such inflammatory and patently false accusations. Now that they have all <\/p>\n<p>the power, they go so far as to create the situations and then lie about the role of their opponents. This is the behavior of a <\/p>\n<p>scoundrel. <span class=\"sig\">mjh<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Domenici Wants N.M. Tree in D.C., BY HELEN GAUSSOIN For the Journal <\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;I refuse to let <em>environmental extremists<\/em> and a federal judge play Scrooge with our holiday tree,&#8221;<\/strong> the New <\/p>\n<p>Mexico Republican said in comments prepared for Friday\u2019s opening reception of the Capitol Holiday Tree Art Extravaganza.<\/p>\n<p>    A <\/p>\n<p>Forest Service spokeswoman said <strong>the federal agency has received no objections<\/strong> to the holiday tree cutting but said that <\/p>\n<p>does not mean it won\u2019t before the end of a 30-day comment period that began Oct. 4. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Domenici &#8230; has likened those who <\/p>\n<p>challenged the Forest Service rule to <strong>&#8220;the grinch who stole Christmas,&#8221;<\/strong> as well as Scrooge&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Environmentalists <\/p>\n<p>with the Forest Guardians in New Mexico and the national office of the Sierra Club have said the Forest Service has extended the impact <\/p>\n<p>of the ruling to situations, like the holiday tree project, never intended in the lawsuit. <strong>They argue the administration is <\/p>\n<p><em>manufacturing a controversy<\/em> <em>to draw opposition to the ruling<\/em>. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When did Saint Pete become such a demagogue? This is the frequently used, shameless tactic of the Radical Right, to make such inflammatory and patently false accusations. Now that they have all the power, they go so far as to create the situations and then lie about the role of their opponents. This is the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/loco\/demagogue-domenici\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Demagogue Domenici<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-loco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","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=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}