{"id":9667,"date":"2015-01-08T15:17:24","date_gmt":"2015-01-08T20:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=9667"},"modified":"2015-01-08T15:17:24","modified_gmt":"2015-01-08T20:17:24","slug":"it-is-to-laugh-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=9667","title":{"rendered":"It is to laugh&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;.I am still amazed at the chutzpa that the repubs have been showing over the past day or so&#8230;no, I guess I shouldn&#8217;t be surprised or amazed&#8230;they have been taking credit for things that they haven&#8217;t done for years and years now&#8230;I guess that&#8217;s because they haven&#8217;t done anything for at least the past six years. But now, they have given me the biggest laugh that I&#8217;ve had in quite a while&#8230;with ole Mitch McConnell&#8217;s statement yesterday that the growth in the economy in the past quarter was due to the &#8220;anticipation&#8221; that the repubs were going to take over the congress&#8230;not that it is a continuation of the trends for the entire year&#8230;not that government spending is up almost 10% in the last quarter&#8230;or that demand is starting to rise&#8230;nope, it just that business was &#8220;anticipating&#8221; the glorious days of repub control of congress and all of the giveaways they are expecting since they bought the repub party lock stock and barrel&#8230;&#8230;you do kind of have to admire&#8230;no, I won&#8217;t say that&#8230;there is nothing about this bunch of liars that is worthy of admiration&#8230;.just contempt&#8230;.geez&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;.I am still amazed at the chutzpa that the repubs have been showing over the past day or so&#8230;no, I guess I shouldn&#8217;t be surprised or amazed&#8230;they have been taking credit for things that they haven&#8217;t done for years and years now&#8230;I guess that&#8217;s because they haven&#8217;t done anything for at least the past six &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=9667\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It is to laugh&#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":[1157,199],"class_list":["post-9667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-gdp-growth","tag-mitch-mcconnell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9667","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=9667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9668,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9667\/revisions\/9668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}