{"id":12163,"date":"2017-05-28T06:15:18","date_gmt":"2017-05-28T13:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12163"},"modified":"2017-05-28T21:14:20","modified_gmt":"2017-05-29T04:14:20","slug":"sunday-toons-of-the-moscow-on-the-potomac-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12163","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Toons of the &#8216;Moscow on the Potomac&#8217; Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/media.cagle.com\/180\/2017\/05\/26\/196043_600.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/media.cagle.com\/180\/2017\/05\/26\/196043_600.jpg\" data-original-height=\"412\" data-original-width=\"600\" height=\"308\" width=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/media.cagle.com\/112\/2017\/03\/28\/193472_600.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/media.cagle.com\/112\/2017\/03\/28\/193472_600.jpg\" data-original-height=\"383\" data-original-width=\"600\" height=\"288\" width=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/assets.amuniversal.com\/cb800870240b0135bd8c005056a9545d.gif\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/assets.amuniversal.com\/cb800870240b0135bd8c005056a9545d.gif\" data-original-height=\"486\" data-original-width=\"750\" height=\"294\" width=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<em>WH Budget Chief: <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/livewire\/mick-mulvaney-i-hope-fewer-people-social-security-disability-insurance\">&#8220;I Hope&#8221;<\/a> Fewer People Get Social Security Disability Insurance<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is fraud, no doubt,&#8221; the <a href=\"https:\/\/takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com\/2015\/09\/08\/busting-the-myths-about-disability-fraud\/\">New York Times<\/a>&#8216;  Teresa Tritch argued in 2015. &#8220;But there is no evidence it is rampant.&#8221;  Tritch pointed to a telling statistic: &#8220;If people on disability were  faking it, <b>they wouldn&#8217;t have such high death rates.<\/b>&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/media.cagle.com\/53\/2017\/05\/22\/195849_600.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/media.cagle.com\/53\/2017\/05\/22\/195849_600.jpg\" height=\"324\" width=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/editorialcartoonists.com\/cartoons\/ZygliA\/2017\/ZygliA20170526A_low.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/editorialcartoonists.com\/cartoons\/ZygliA\/2017\/ZygliA20170526A_low.jpg\" data-original-height=\"484\" data-original-width=\"600\" height=\"363\" width=\"450\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/i.redd.it\/m3na4iivd5zy.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/i.redd.it\/m3na4iivd5zy.jpg\" width=\"450\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/media.cagle.com\/139\/2017\/05\/24\/195987_600.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/media.cagle.com\/139\/2017\/05\/24\/195987_600.jpg\" data-original-height=\"454\" data-original-width=\"600\" height=\"340\" width=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/assets.amuniversal.com\/fe13147021520135b96b005056a9545d.gif\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/assets.amuniversal.com\/fe13147021520135b96b005056a9545d.gif\" data-original-height=\"562\" data-original-width=\"750\" height=\"336\" width=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i.redd.it\/re7wy4euy8zy.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"475\" data-original-width=\"640\" height=\"333\" src=\"https:\/\/i.redd.it\/re7wy4euy8zy.jpg\" width=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/editorialcartoonists.com\/cartoons\/RogerR\/2017\/RogerR20170523_low.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/editorialcartoonists.com\/cartoons\/RogerR\/2017\/RogerR20170523_low.jpg\" height=\"321\" width=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/editorialcartoonists.com\/cartoons\/PettJ\/2017\/PettJ20170523_low.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/editorialcartoonists.com\/cartoons\/PettJ\/2017\/PettJ20170523_low.jpg\" height=\"333\" width=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i.redd.it\/pmbpmyigf8zy.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/i.redd.it\/pmbpmyigf8zy.jpg\" width=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><b>* * *<\/b><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><i>Perry Dorrell blogs as PDiddie at <a href=\"http:\/\/brainsandeggs.blogspot.com\/\">Brains and Eggs<\/a>, usually on topics concerning the strange brew of Texas politics.  He&#8217;s also on Twitter <a href=\"http:\/\/Twitter.com\/PDiddie\">@PDiddie<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-12163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-toons"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12163"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=12163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}