{"id":6103,"date":"2013-09-20T19:33:23","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T23:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/?p=6103"},"modified":"2022-08-01T07:43:11","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T11:43:11","slug":"another-long-national-nightmare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2013\/09\/another-long-national-nightmare\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Long National Nightmare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President  Obama is holding fast that he will not negotiate with terrorists.\u00a0  I&#8217;m  not talking about Syria or Hezbollah or Iran.\u00a0  I&#8217;m talking about our  House of Horror-Representatives.<\/p>\n<p>It is hard to believe that  Republicans have controlled the House only since 2011.\u00a0  It feels  like a lot longer than that. \u00a0 It seems like forever that anything has been accomplished there other than dozens of empty votes against ObamaCare.<\/p>\n<p>In his inauguration speech, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Inauguration_of_Gerald_Ford\">Gerald Ford described Richard Nixon&#8217;s Watergate fiasco<\/a> as our &#8220;long national nightmare.&#8221;\u00a0 That nightmare lasted not quite two years and two months, and ended with Nixon&#8217;s resignation.\u00a0 Our current Republican nightmare has surpassed that by several months, with no end in sight.\u00a0 Please wake me when it&#8217;s over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama is holding fast that he will not negotiate with terrorists.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not talking about Syria or Hezbollah or Iran.\u00a0 I&#8217;m talking about our House of Horror-Representatives. It is hard to believe that Republicans have controlled the House only &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2013\/09\/another-long-national-nightmare\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6104,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6103\/revisions\/6104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}