{"id":32326,"date":"2021-03-04T13:36:16","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T19:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=32326"},"modified":"2021-03-04T13:36:16","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T19:36:16","slug":"the-clown-of-the-senate-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/03\/04\/the-clown-of-the-senate-3\/","title":{"rendered":"The Clown Of The Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I see Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) is unwilling to concede the race for the title of Clown Of The Senate. Here he&#8217;s seen trying to present a critique of the Covid-19 relief bill (American Rescue Plan):<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">why are they like this <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QGYOQrJX1l\">pic.twitter.com\/QGYOQrJX1l<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Elizabeth Pancotti (@ENPancotti) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ENPancotti\/status\/1367230264355807240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 3, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Yes, that does say &#8220;<em>Thickness of a $1 bill: ..<\/em>.&#8221;, followed by a bunch of math.<\/p>\n<p>Because, heaven knows, this is a relevant metric when evaluating a proposed piece of legislation. Especially legislation designed to bring relief to a large proportion of America suffering due to a national emergency.<\/p>\n<p><em>Of Wisconsin<\/em>, you ding-bat.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s another example of ideology over competency, and how that damages the nation. Do better next time, Wisconsin. Johnson&#8217;s beyond help, I fear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I see Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) is unwilling to concede the race for the title of Clown Of The Senate. Here he&#8217;s seen trying to present a critique of the Covid-19 relief bill (American Rescue Plan): why are they like this pic.twitter.com\/QGYOQrJX1l &mdash; Elizabeth Pancotti (@ENPancotti) March 3, 2021 Yes, \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/03\/04\/the-clown-of-the-senate-3\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32326"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32328,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32326\/revisions\/32328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}