{"id":873,"date":"2009-09-25T06:02:40","date_gmt":"2009-09-25T13:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/?p=873"},"modified":"2009-09-25T11:56:20","modified_gmt":"2009-09-25T18:56:20","slug":"say-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/?p=873","title":{"rendered":"Say What?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In what has to be a textbook example of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.helenair.com\/news\/state-and-regional\/article_32019100-a98e-11de-8e43-001cc4c002e0.html\">irrelevant political discourse<\/a>, democrat challenger Dennis McDonald released a statement about Congressman Denny Rehberg&#8217;s behavior on the night of the boating accident on Flathead Lake.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, McDonald can&#8217;t find anything about Denny&#8217;s political choices to campaign against, particularly since the vast majority of Montanans oppose the current healthcare proposals and Washington&#8217;s out-of-control spending.  And he probably has some understanding of the potential backlash against the Cap and Trade legislation should he come out in support of that.<\/p>\n<p>So what&#8217;s a fella to do to get his name in the paper?<\/p>\n<p>Come out and attack a guy who has a couple of drinks at a party and then rides in a boat???  NOT!!!! <a href=\"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/images3.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/images3.jpeg\" alt=\"images\" title=\"images\" width=\"74\" height=\"103\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-875\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Note to McDonald:  Check out Abe Lincoln&#8217;s advice &#8211; &#8220;Better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what has to be a textbook example of irrelevant political discourse, democrat challenger Dennis McDonald released a statement about Congressman Denny Rehberg&#8217;s behavior on the night of the boating accident on Flathead Lake. Apparently, McDonald can&#8217;t find anything about &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/?p=873\">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-e5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873"}],"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=873"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":879,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions\/879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}