{"id":2994,"date":"2008-09-30T10:36:41","date_gmt":"2008-09-30T10:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/09\/30\/go-barney-frank\/"},"modified":"2008-09-30T10:36:41","modified_gmt":"2008-09-30T10:36:41","slug":"go-barney-frank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/09\/30\/go-barney-frank\/","title":{"rendered":"Go, Barney Frank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The House Republicans blame their failure to pass the bailout bill on Mean Nancy Pelosi, and Barney Frank lets them have it:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/0SE2oswT8WU&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/0SE2oswT8WU&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>The key bit, for those who don&#8217;t want to watch YouTube: &#8220;[T]hink about this. &#8216;Somebody hurt my feelings, so I will punish the country.&#8217; That&#8217;s hardly plausible. And there are 12 Republican members who were ready to stand up for the economic interest of America, but not if anybody insulted them. I&#8217;ll make an offer. Give me those 12 people&#8217;s names and I will go talk uncharacteristically nicely to them and tell them what wonderful people they are and maybe they&#8217;ll now think about the country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>More like this, please.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House Republicans blame their failure to pass the bailout bill on Mean Nancy Pelosi, and Barney Frank lets them have it: The key bit, for those who don&#8217;t want to watch YouTube: &#8220;[T]hink about this. &#8216;Somebody hurt my feelings, so I will punish the country.&#8217; That&#8217;s hardly plausible. And there are 12 Republican members&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/09\/30\/go-barney-frank\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Go, Barney Frank<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}