{"id":14618,"date":"2013-10-03T12:16:53","date_gmt":"2013-10-03T16:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=14618"},"modified":"2013-10-03T12:32:23","modified_gmt":"2013-10-03T16:32:23","slug":"the-reign-of-morons-is-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2013\/10\/03\/the-reign-of-morons-is-here\/","title":{"rendered":"The Reign Of Morons Is Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Esquire<\/em> has the item <a title=\"Esquire article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/blogs\/politics\/Shutdown_Blues\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Reign Of Morons Is Here<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 About the mildest quote I could find to excerpt here is the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We have elected an ungovernable collection of snake-handlers, Bible-bangers, ignorami, bagmen and outright frauds, a collection so ungovernable that it insists the nation be ungovernable, too. We have elected people to govern us who do not believe in government.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, I don&#8217;t &#8220;believe in the government&#8221; either, but I do have an understanding of what we might need to do by banding together, forming a government, and having it perform certain necessary functions.<\/p>\n<p>The point that I keep on insisting on is the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The first and most important thing is to recognize how we came to this pass. Both sides did not do this. Both sides are not to blame.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And to think it all started with Ronald Reagan.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to RogerS and Jo\u00e3oG for posting this on their Facebook pages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Esquire has the item The Reign Of Morons Is Here.\u00a0 About the mildest quote I could find to excerpt here is the following: We have elected an ungovernable collection of snake-handlers, Bible-bangers, ignorami, bagmen and outright frauds, a collection so ungovernable that it insists the nation be ungovernable, too. We have elected people to govern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-stevegsposts","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14618"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14622,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14618\/revisions\/14622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}