{"id":1279,"date":"2009-01-31T07:43:41","date_gmt":"2009-01-31T12:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=1279"},"modified":"2009-01-31T10:15:07","modified_gmt":"2009-01-31T15:15:07","slug":"saturday-open-thread-127","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2009\/01\/31\/saturday-open-thread-127\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, yet another reason to be proud of our fine Democratic representatives<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Congressional Democrats stripped from President Barack Obama’s economic stimulus plan a local lawmaker’s bid to assure that American high-tech companies would get jobs funded by that plan.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I don’t know why we’d need to create jobs for Americans. Hell, only 100,000 people lost their jobs last week<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The “local lawmaker” in question is PA Republican Tim Murphy. I don’t know anything else about the guy, but I am<\/em><\/strong> rather chagrined to once again find myself agreeing with a Republican. <\/p>\n

“From the iron mines to the manufacturers, to the mills, let’s use it to buy American,” the Upper St. Clair Republican said. “If we really are going to be serious about American jobs, we should require the billions in taxpayer funds go only towards American jobs and to buy products that say ‘Made in the U.S.A.'”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sounds good. Just as good as President Obama’s and Chris Dodd’s rhetoric about Wall St. executives getting huge bonuses, all while working to block legislation that would allow the government to actually do something about it<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Nice to know we can still count on politicians to suck – no matter which side of the aisle they sit on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, yet another reason to be proud of our fine Democratic representatives. Congressional Democrats stripped from President Barack Obama’s economic stimulus plan a local lawmaker’s bid to assure that American high-tech companies would get jobs funded by that plan. I don’t know why we’d need to create jobs for Americans. Hell, only 100,000 people lost […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}