{"id":298,"date":"2003-11-06T05:53:11","date_gmt":"2003-11-06T10:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/buying-the-cowards-in-the-senate-a-clue\/"},"modified":"2003-11-06T05:53:11","modified_gmt":"2003-11-06T10:53:11","slug":"buying-the-cowards-in-the-senate-a-clue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/buying-the-cowards-in-the-senate-a-clue\/","title":{"rendered":"buying the cowards in the senate a clue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>i should&#8217;ve said something earlier,  but&#8230; the united states senate passed the $87 billion supplemental spending request on a voice vote.  this bill spends $300 out of every pocket in america.<\/p>\n<p>what this means is that no senator is &#8220;on the record&#8221; voting for or against this measure.  so,  if you want to know how your senator voted, you need to call them up and ask.  and they don&#8217;t have to tell you.<\/p>\n<p>stupid.  cowards.<\/p>\n<p>if you ever needed an excuse to fire your senator, now you have it.  tell your senators that they are always accountable.  you don&#8217;t have to agree with every vote they make on your behalf, but they do have to be transparent.  that&#8217;s how this country is supposed to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i should&#8217;ve said something earlier, but&#8230; the united states senate passed the $87 billion supplemental spending request on a voice vote. this bill spends $300 out of every pocket in america. what this means is that no senator is &#8220;on the record&#8221; voting for or against this measure. so, if you want to know how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}