{"id":4858,"date":"2005-07-31T09:19:49","date_gmt":"2005-07-31T13:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=4858"},"modified":"2005-07-31T09:19:49","modified_gmt":"2005-07-31T13:19:49","slug":"sunday-discussion-group-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/sunday-discussion-group-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Discussion Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was quite a week for Republican law-making. Apparently, upon realizing that they were about to head home to see constituents over their August recess, and they couldn&#8217;t point to any real legislative accomplishments since intervention in the Terri Schiavo tragedy, GOP lawmakers passed a flurry of conservative wish-list items. We saw:<\/p>\n<p>* an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanprogressaction.org\/site\/apps\/nl\/content2.asp?c=klLWJcP7H&#038;b=914257&#038;ct=1209173#3\">energy bill<\/a> that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanprogressaction.org\/site\/apps\/nl\/content2.asp?c=klLWJcP7H&#038;b=914257&#038;ct=1226481#3\">only ExxonMobil could love<\/a>;<\/p>\n<p>* a transportation bill with more pork than a pig farm (John McCain <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/POLITICS\/07\/29\/highway.bill.ap\/\">called it<\/a> &#8220;terrifying in its fiscal consequences and disappointing for the lack of fiscal discipline&#8221;);<\/p>\n<p>* a tragically flawed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanprogressaction.org\/site\/apps\/nl\/content2.asp?c=klLWJcP7H&#038;b=699965&#038;ct=1004931\">trade bill<\/a>;<\/p>\n<p>* and the Senate, responding to demands from the NRA, passed a bill to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehill.com\/thehill\/export\/TheHill\/News\/TheExecutive\/072805_frist.html\">protect firearm manufacturers<\/a> from almost any litigation at all.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s discussion group topic is: which of these measures is the worst?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was quite a week for Republican law-making. Apparently, upon realizing that they were about to head home to see constituents over their August recess, and they couldn&#8217;t point to any real legislative accomplishments since intervention in the Terri Schiavo tragedy, GOP lawmakers passed a flurry of conservative wish-list items. We saw: * an energy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}