{"id":119,"date":"2009-02-24T23:00:42","date_gmt":"2009-02-25T04:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yuriar.com\/politics\/?p=119"},"modified":"2009-02-24T23:00:42","modified_gmt":"2009-02-25T04:00:42","slug":"obama-adresses-congress-my-take","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/obama-adresses-congress-my-take\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama adresses Congress &#8211; my take."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-118\" title=\"img_8997sm\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2009\/02\/img_8997sm-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"img_8997sm\" width=\"614\" height=\"461\" srcset=\"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/img_8997sm-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/img_8997sm-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/img_8997sm-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/img_8997sm.jpg 1126w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Blah blah blah.<\/p>\n<p>Dude, he promised to cure cancer.\u00a0 He also declared that no one would be allowed to drop out of high school anymore.\u00a0 He claims to support the troops, and swears that he will not allow Terrorists in foriegn countries to plot against us, that we will be strong!\u00a0 Then turns around and proclaims that he has closed gitmo.\u00a0 Sorry, but, closing Gitmo does not make America strong. \u00a0 He announced that he would repeal the Bush tax cuts on the top 2% of Americans, but give a tax break to the bottom 95% of Americans.\u00a0 The problem with those numbers it that the top 5% of American earners pay over 50% of the tax burden already! (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/home\/menu\/top_50__of_wage_earners_pay_96_09__of_income_taxes.guest.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">source<\/a>)\u00a0 There was more, but really, all I ever hear when he speaks is Charlie Brown&#8217;s Teacher, &#8220;Wah wah wah, wah wah wah wah.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Best tweet of the night goes to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mamalogues\/status\/1247555034\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dana Loesch aka Mamalogues<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"status-body\"><span class=\"entry-content\">Who knew there were so many fancy ways to say &#8220;All your monies are belong to us?&#8221; <\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"status-body\"><span class=\"entry-content\">Love it. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Bobby Jindal&#8217;s response was awesome.\u00a0 I love this quote,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"status-body\"><span class=\"entry-content\">Some in Washington say that government. will rescue us from economic storms raging all around us. Those of us who lived through Hurricane Katrina, we have our doubts.<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"status-body\"><span class=\"entry-content\">Awesome! WTG Bobby!\u00a0\u00a0 I say Palin\/Jindal 2012! <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"status-body\"><span class=\"entry-content\">Meanwhile, everytime Obama makes another speech, I can&#8217;t help but think of the quote from Revenge of the Sith:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"status-body\"><span class=\"entry-content\">&#8220;So this is how liberty dies, to thunderous applause.&#8221; Padme Amidala<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"status-body\"><span class=\"entry-content\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"status-body\"><span class=\"entry-content\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blah blah blah. Dude, he promised to cure cancer.\u00a0 He also declared that no one would be allowed to drop out of high school anymore.\u00a0 He claims to support the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[192,236,243,366,470,492],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-politics","tag-economy","tag-gitmo","tag-government","tag-obama","tag-taxes","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}