{"id":5895,"date":"2005-11-21T12:24:37","date_gmt":"2005-11-21T17:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=5895"},"modified":"2005-11-21T12:24:37","modified_gmt":"2005-11-21T17:24:37","slug":"quote-of-the-day-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/quote-of-the-day-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I imagine it&#8217;s difficult for adamant supporters of the war in Iraq to understand when people change their mind about the value of the war, but when faced with grieving parents, who&#8217;ve lost sons or daughters in Iraq, members of Congress should probably avoid <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/11\/19\/AR2005111901183.html\">questioning the parents&#8217; sanity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;You&#8217;ll have a parent or two here, as you know, whose tragic grief from the tragic loss of a loved one, of a child, causes their mental thinking to be a little destabilized. That&#8217;s understandable.&#8221; &#8212; Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Tex.) at a news conference Thursday, discussing parents of slain soldiers who turned antiwar.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, if you&#8217;ve decided the war was a mistake, the logical conclusion for at least one Republican member of Congress is that you&#8217;ve temporarily lost control of your faculties.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, by Rep. Gohmert&#8217;s standards, there <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/polls\/2005-10-31-nov-poll.htm\">sure are a lot of Americans<\/a> with &#8220;destabilized mental thinking.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I imagine it&#8217;s difficult for adamant supporters of the war in Iraq to understand when people change their mind about the value of the war, but when faced with grieving parents, who&#8217;ve lost sons or daughters in Iraq, members of Congress should probably avoid questioning the parents&#8217; sanity. &#8220;You&#8217;ll have a parent or two here, [&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-5895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5895","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=5895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}