{"id":1806,"date":"2007-08-03T10:14:26","date_gmt":"2007-08-03T14:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleek.lunarpages.com\/blogs\/?p=1806"},"modified":"2007-08-03T10:14:26","modified_gmt":"2007-08-03T14:14:26","slug":"elections-should-have-consequences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=1806","title":{"rendered":"Elections Should Have Consequences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And when they don't, when the elected refuse to do what they were elected to do, <a href=\"http:\/\/zogby.com\/news\/ReadNews.dbm?ID=1343\">this happens<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Just 24% give the president favorable ratings of his performance in handling the war in Iraq, but confidence in Congress is significantly worse \u00e2\u20ac\u201c <b>only 3% give Congress positive marks for how it has handled the war<\/b>. This lack of confidence in Congress cuts across all ideologies. Democrats \u00e2\u20ac\u201c some of whom had hoped the now Democrat-led Congress would bring an end to the war in Iraq \u00e2\u20ac\u201c expressed overwhelming displeasure with how Congress has handled the war, with 94% giving Congress a negative rating in its handling specifically of that issue.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Come on, ya buncha idiots, do your job!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And when they don't, when the elected refuse to do what they were elected to do, this happens: Just 24% give the president favorable ratings of his performance in handling the war in Iraq, but confidence in Congress is significantly worse \u00e2\u20ac\u201c only 3% give Congress positive marks for how it has handled the war. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}