{"id":279,"date":"2011-12-12T17:10:09","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T17:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/?p=279"},"modified":"2011-12-12T17:10:09","modified_gmt":"2011-12-12T17:10:09","slug":"throw-those-damn-bums-out-the-other-bums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/12\/12\/throw-those-damn-bums-out-the-other-bums\/","title":{"rendered":"Throw those damn bums out, the OTHER bums!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Poll: Voters want to throw &#8217;em out<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2011\/12\/09\/poll-voters-want-to-throw-em-out\/?hpt=hp_bn3\">http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2011\/12\/09\/poll-voters-want-to-throw-em-out\/?hpt=hp_bn3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sounds like a clear referendum on Congress, eh?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;76 percent of voters said most members of Congress do not deserve to be re-elected, the highest percentage Gallup measured in 19 years of asking that question. And the 20% who say congressional members should be re-elected is a record low-one point below the previous low recorded in August.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>However, just below is this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;more than half don&#8217;t want their own member to be voted out of Congress. Fifty-three percent say their own representative deserves to be re-elected and almost four in 10 say their congressman does not.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We will never see any form of meaningful change when you keep seeing this sort of dynamic.  &#8220;Throw the other bums out&#8221; just isn&#8217;t a meaningful slogan!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poll: Voters want to throw &#8217;em out http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2011\/12\/09\/poll-voters-want-to-throw-em-out\/?hpt=hp_bn3 Sounds like a clear referendum on Congress, eh? &#8230;76 percent of voters said most members of Congress do not deserve to be re-elected, the highest percentage Gallup measured in 19 years of asking that question. And the 20% who say congressional members should be re-elected is a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/12\/12\/throw-those-damn-bums-out-the-other-bums\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Throw those damn bums out, the OTHER bums!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions\/280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}