{"id":6244,"date":"2010-04-22T07:04:35","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T12:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=6244"},"modified":"2010-04-22T07:04:35","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T12:04:35","slug":"sadly-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/22\/sadly-true\/","title":{"rendered":"Sadly, True"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former classmate of mine, a doctor of rhetoric at a state university, posts a clever quip from a colleague:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> &#8220;I have come to the conclusion that, if Dems get control, they pass laws requiring seat belts for cats. If Reps get control, they pass laws prohibiting unions. I&#8217;ll take the seat belt laws for cats.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sadly, this is in true.<\/p>\n<p>When the Democrats have unfettered control of Congress and the presidency, they seek to compel citizens&#8217; behavior in increasingly silly, minute, and trivial ways.<\/p>\n<p>When Republicans have unfettered control of Congress, they seek to remove compulsory participation in self-perpetuating organizations without whose membership, citizens cannot hold certain jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, the analogy isn&#8217;t true; six years of Republican control brought us an expansion of Medicare, No Child Left Behind, and BCRA instead of any decrease in Federalization.<\/p>\n<p>I need to start a whole series called <em>Arguing on Facebook<\/em> to highlight how unreasonable even the most educated liberals in my circle are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former classmate of mine, a doctor of rhetoric at a state university, posts a clever quip from a colleague: &#8220;I have come to the conclusion that, if Dems get control, they pass laws requiring seat belts for cats. If Reps get control, they pass laws prohibiting unions. I&#8217;ll take the seat belt laws for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6245,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6244\/revisions\/6245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}