{"id":1172,"date":"2010-01-14T18:09:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T01:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/?p=1172"},"modified":"2010-01-14T18:09:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T01:09:00","slug":"another-fine-mess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/?p=1172","title":{"rendered":"Another Fine Mess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>OMG!!!<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/LC20-laurel-hardy.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/LC20-laurel-hardy.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"LC20-laurel-hardy\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1174\" srcset=\"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/LC20-laurel-hardy.gif 250w, http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/LC20-laurel-hardy-150x150.gif 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>  With friends like these, who needs enemies?  From the Independent Record online this afternoon&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Newt Gingrich enlists Schweitzer&#8217;s help<\/strong><br \/>\nBy MATT GOURAS &#8211; Associated Press Writer | Posted: Thursday, January 14,2010<br \/>\nHELENA, Mont. (AP) &#8211; Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich says he likes what he sees in Gov. Brian Schweitzer&#8217;s handling of state finances.<br \/>\nThe conservative Republican called Schweitzer Thursday morning and invited him to help with the American Solutions for Winning the Future project.<br \/>\nSchweitzer, a Democrat, told Gingrich he would be happy to participate.<br \/>\nThe governor says Montana is doing better than other states because it set some money aside during good times and was prudent with its budget.<br \/>\nGingrich says his project is trying to find the best governing ideas for creating jobs, fostering energy independence, protecting workers&#8217; rights and reforming education.\n <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>WHAT THE HELL IS NEWT THINKING????  Sheesh!<\/p>\n<p>If Brian gets his ticket punched to DC in 2012 we know who we can thank for the help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OMG!!! With friends like these, who needs enemies? From the Independent Record online this afternoon&#8230; Newt Gingrich enlists Schweitzer&#8217;s help By MATT GOURAS &#8211; Associated Press Writer | Posted: Thursday, January 14,2010 HELENA, Mont. (AP) &#8211; Former House Speaker Newt &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/?p=1172\">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-iU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172"}],"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=1172"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1176,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions\/1176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}