{"id":7931,"date":"2006-07-14T10:13:41","date_gmt":"2006-07-14T14:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/7931.html"},"modified":"2006-07-14T10:13:41","modified_gmt":"2006-07-14T14:13:41","slug":"in-election-year-pandering-they-trust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/in-election-year-pandering-they-trust\/","title":{"rendered":"In election-year pandering they trust"},"content":{"rendered":"

The [tag]Senate[\/tag] has a limited amount of time left this session and plenty of proposals lawmakers would like to try and pass, but the chamber found time yesterday to approve a resolution that “celebrates, commemorates and reaffirms” the national [tag]motto[\/tag]: “[tag]In God We Trust[\/tag].”<\/p>\n

James Dobson and Focus on the Family are thrilled<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“It is heartening to see the men and women elected to serve the people formally acknowledge once again, the true source of the blessings we enjoy as a nation,” Dr. James Dobson, chairman of Focus on the Family Action, said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

According to the resolution, sponsored<\/a> by Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.), Americans are now supposed to “reflect” on the motto and recognize “the integral part that the national motto of the United States has played in the life of the Nation.” Considering the fact that “In God We Trust” wasn’t even the motto for our first 200 years (“E Pluribus Unum” was), I’m not quite sure what Brownback wants to think about.<\/p>\n

Maybe we should “reflect” on the fact that hollow, election-year stunts like these are last refuge of scoundrels. The Senate’s really been on a roll lately, hasn’t it? Flag burning, gay marriage, euthanasia<\/a>, and “In God We Trust.”<\/p>\n

The world’s most deliberative body, indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The [tag]Senate[\/tag] has a limited amount of time left this session and plenty of proposals lawmakers would like to try and pass, but the chamber found time yesterday to approve a resolution that “celebrates, commemorates and reaffirms” the national [tag]motto[\/tag]: “[tag]In God We Trust[\/tag].” James Dobson and Focus on the Family are thrilled. “It is […]<\/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-7931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7931","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=7931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}