{"id":3681,"date":"2005-07-07T15:47:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-07T19:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/?p=3681"},"modified":"2021-06-07T15:49:58","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T19:49:58","slug":"support-the-truths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2005\/07\/07\/support-the-truths\/","title":{"rendered":"Support the Truths"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/images\/newsbug.gif?resize=65%2C20&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"65\" height=\"20\">&nbsp; &nbsp; This story dates from last week, but I&#8217;m only hearing about it now. Turns out Republicans have no problem with White House lies.<br><div style=\"margin:15px; padding:15px;\"border: 1px solid #000000;\"><b>VOTE ALERT: GOP Supports Government Lying<\/b><br>This is a new low: in a narrow vote, House Republicans voted down an amendment [H.R. 3058] that would explicitly <a href=\"http:\/\/clerk.house.gov\/evs\/2005\/roll354.xml\">bar the federal government from lying to Congress<\/a>. Nine Republicans and all Democrats voted for the measure &#8212; but the GOP leadership made sure that there were enough GOP votes to defeat the measure.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; <i>(From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidsirota.com\/2005\/07\/vote-alert-gop-supports-government.html\">Sirotablog<\/a>)<\/i><\/div>&nbsp; &nbsp; You&#8217;d think if the House can pass a pointless PR stunt like the flag burning amendment they could also pretend to support honesty in government. But who am I kidding. Bush&#8217;s bullshit is a more protected form of expression than our own First Amendment rights.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; This story dates from last week, but I&#8217;m only hearing about it now. Turns out Republicans have no problem with White House lies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3681"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3683,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3681\/revisions\/3683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}