{"id":46,"date":"2008-09-04T12:49:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-04T17:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newblog.anonymousmanager.com\/blog\/?p=46"},"modified":"2008-09-04T12:49:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-04T17:49:00","slug":"the-party-of-hate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anonymousmanager.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/the-party-of-hate\/","title":{"rendered":"The party of hate&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, when you can&#8217;t say it better yourself, you shouldn&#8217;t&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"line-height: 20px;font-size:13;\" ><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the black and white world of those committed to war as an international relations strategy, voting \u201cpresent\u201d makes no sense &#8211; especially when the Illinois legislative process is willfully misrepresented. (Voting present is a way to preserve the bill with passing it in its current state. Far from an easy out, it is the hard path &#8211; requiring further negotiation to remove earmarks and other problems.) They would prefer the simple relief of a \u201cyes or no\u201d world, where the evil are punished and the good rewarded. For in such a world, we get to know who the enemy is and just hate them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span>Douglas says it well!!!<\/div>\n<div>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, when you can&#8217;t say it better yourself, you shouldn&#8217;t&#8230; In the black and white world of those committed to war as an international relations strategy, voting \u201cpresent\u201d makes no sense &#8211; especially when the Illinois legislative process is willfully misrepresented. (Voting present is a way to preserve the bill with passing it in its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-rant"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqbc8-K","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anonymousmanager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anonymousmanager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anonymousmanager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anonymousmanager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anonymousmanager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anonymousmanager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anonymousmanager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anonymousmanager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anonymousmanager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}