{"id":1104,"date":"2009-12-20T18:38:01","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T01:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/?p=1104"},"modified":"2009-12-20T19:28:53","modified_gmt":"2009-12-21T02:28:53","slug":"twenty-five-cent-whores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/?p=1104","title":{"rendered":"Twenty-Five Cent Whores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/image_mini.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/image_mini.jpeg\" alt=\"image_mini\" title=\"image_mini\" width=\"200\" height=\"134\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1108\" \/><\/a>Now that we&#8217;ve had the opportunity to see and understand the great deliberative process of the august Untied States Senate, it&#8217;s all clear to me.  Hold-outs like Mary Landrieu, Blanche Lincoln, Joe Lieberman, and Ben Nelson obviously have played the game more astutely than most.<\/p>\n<p>What has been revealed to any and all who have been paying attention over the past few weeks is that the Dems who held out for a good deal for their constituents got everything they asked for and more &#8211; all at the expense of the taxpayers in the other forty-six states.  <\/p>\n<p>This is, of course, nothing more than confirmation of Ronald Reagan&#8217;s observation about politicians and practitioners of the world&#8217;s oldest profession. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m certainly not one to claim to be either shocked or surprised.<\/p>\n<p>What really bothers me is that Max and Jon are so cheap and easy.  I mean, really &#8211; couldn&#8217;t either of them have held out for at least a kiss and fifty cents?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that we&#8217;ve had the opportunity to see and understand the great deliberative process of the august Untied States Senate, it&#8217;s all clear to me. Hold-outs like Mary Landrieu, Blanche Lincoln, Joe Lieberman, and Ben Nelson obviously have played the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/?p=1104\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Xq4i-hO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1104"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1120,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions\/1120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}