{"id":6862,"date":"2013-06-08T14:27:22","date_gmt":"2013-06-08T18:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=6862"},"modified":"2013-06-08T14:27:22","modified_gmt":"2013-06-08T18:27:22","slug":"heartless-bastards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=6862","title":{"rendered":"Heartless bastards&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;just a short one on a jaw-dropper that I read somewhere today&#8230;our buddy Eric Cantor, had a wonderful idea (yep, that&#8217;s snark) to eliminate government funding of elections that would do nothing but increase the influence of corporations and the rich, but he tried a little bit of misdirection to confuse people what the whole thing was about&#8230;including a clause that would take some of the money and put it towards funding medical care for sick kids&#8230;but the sick, heartless bastards of the hard right (yeah, you can read that tea partiers) came out in full howl that helping sick kids would create a &#8220;constituency&#8221; that would then have to be helped forever&#8230;just like people that get food stamps or unemployment insurance. I am at a loss how to respond to someone as heartless as this&#8230;of course you should help sick kids forever! Who is a government supposed to help forever? Oil companies? Oh&#8230;I forgot&#8230;that is exactly who these bastards want to help while kids die from lack of health care&#8230;geez&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;just a short one on a jaw-dropper that I read somewhere today&#8230;our buddy Eric Cantor, had a wonderful idea (yep, that&#8217;s snark) to eliminate government funding of elections that would do nothing but increase the influence of corporations and the rich, but he tried a little bit of misdirection to confuse people what the whole &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=6862\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Heartless bastards&#8230;.<\/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":[10],"tags":[907,118],"class_list":["post-6862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-election-financing","tag-tea-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6863,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6862\/revisions\/6863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}