{"id":1844,"date":"2011-01-13T20:59:32","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T03:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/?p=1844"},"modified":"2011-01-13T20:59:32","modified_gmt":"2011-01-14T03:59:32","slug":"the-downside-of-bumper-sticker-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/?p=1844","title":{"rendered":"The Downside of Bumper Sticker Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s tough when stark raving reality bites one in the lower posterior.  House Republicans are learning that the hard way.  Yesterday&#8217;s vote on the Legislature&#8217;s feed bill has to have more than a few of them slapping themselves upside the head.  Already the Governor and the Democrat party and the lapdog media are pummeling them with their own words and gleefully hoisting the petards bearing unsuspecting political neophytes. [<em>Ed. note &#8211; I&#8217;m not providing links to the liberal blogs &#8211; they can generate their own traffic.  You know how to find them if you want.<\/em>] <\/p>\n<p>Well-intentioned attempts to reconcile legitimate expenditures and tax increases with catchy campaign promises are suddenly proving to be frustrating at best.  All those catchy sound-bites about cutting spending and smaller government, no matter how sincerely meant during the election cycle are quickly becoming the victims of real governance.  If the other guy can frame the attack on a bumper sticker, and you need a whole page to defend your position, you lose.<\/p>\n<p>Our new Republican legislative majority is caught firmly between a rock and a hard place.  And there are 80 more days left to go.  <\/p>\n<p>Now we know what &#8220;tyranny of the minority&#8221; really means.<\/p>\n<p>Bummer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s tough when stark raving reality bites one in the lower posterior. House Republicans are learning that the hard way. Yesterday&#8217;s vote on the Legislature&#8217;s feed bill has to have more than a few of them slapping themselves upside the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/?p=1844\">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-tK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844"}],"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=1844"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1846,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844\/revisions\/1846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}