{"id":9498,"date":"2010-07-01T14:46:44","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T18:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=9498"},"modified":"2010-07-01T14:46:44","modified_gmt":"2010-07-01T18:46:44","slug":"john-boehner-pandering-fabulist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=9498","title":{"rendered":"John Boehner, Pandering Fabulist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2010\/06\/29\/boehner-dems-snuffing-out-america-i-grew-up-in\/?fbid=m8uCD0gQT1M\">Among other things<\/a>, House Minority Leader John Boehner recently said: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\"There's a political rebellion brewing, and I don't think we've seen anything like it since 1776.\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>John, you ignorant slut... Look, I get that teabaggers like to pretend they're direct spiritual descendants of the people who overthrew the British government (way back when it took more than mindlessly forwarding fallacious emails to be a rebel). But are you seriously saying that the \"rebellion\" today -- which consists of old white people complaining about the things happening in their Fox-addled imaginations -- is a bigger deal than the <em>Civil War<\/em> ? I mean, in terms of <i>rebellion<\/i>, the Civil War kinda blows the American Revolution out of the water. <i>Twenty five times<\/i> more people died in the Civil War than died in the Revolution. 625,000 dead is a hell of a rebellion. How many teabaggers have done more than garden variety political activism ?<\/p>\n<p>Hell, the teabaggers haven't managed to gin up anything that compares even to the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Whiskey_Rebellion\">Whiskey Rebellion<\/a> -- which would make a much better parallel for the teabaggers, since it was a rebellion over a tax that was enacted in order to pay down the national debt. I suppose historical accuracy isn't really the point. But still...<\/p>\n<p>Smarter demagogues, please.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among other things, House Minority Leader John Boehner recently said: \"There's a political rebellion brewing, and I don't think we've seen anything like it since 1776.\" John, you ignorant slut... Look, I get that teabaggers like to pretend they're direct spiritual descendants of the people who overthrew the British government (way back when it took [&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-9498","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\/9498","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=9498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}