{"id":9012,"date":"2011-12-27T06:35:11","date_gmt":"2011-12-27T14:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=9012"},"modified":"2011-12-26T20:36:38","modified_gmt":"2011-12-27T04:36:38","slug":"boehner-offers-quote-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=9012","title":{"rendered":"Boehner Offers Quote of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/JohnBoehner_presser_grimace_122311_420.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Our nomination for &#8220;Quote of the Year&#8221; comes from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/12\/22\/us-usa-taxes-idUSTRE7B827K20111222\">lonely press conference given by Speaker John Boehner (R-OH)<\/a> last Friday, announcing his collapse on House Republicans&#8217; attempt to block a two-month extension of the Payroll Tax Cut and unemployment benefits&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"document\">&#8220;Why not do the right thing for the American people even though it&#8217;s not exactly what we want?&#8221;<\/div>\n<p>Those words, intentionally or not, seem to pretty much cut straight to the heart of the current state of the GOP in 2011, all in one smartly-packed nutshell (pun intended.)<\/p>\n<p>Anyone have any other nominations for Quote of the Year?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our nomination for &#8220;Quote of the Year&#8221; comes from the lonely press conference given by Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) last Friday, announcing his collapse on House Republicans&#8217; attempt to block a two-month extension of the Payroll Tax Cut and unemployment benefits&#8230; &#8220;Why not do the right thing for the American people even though it&#8217;s not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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":[455,300],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-9012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-john-boehner","category-republicans"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9012","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9012"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=9012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}