{"id":8180,"date":"2006-08-11T12:28:20","date_gmt":"2006-08-11T16:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/8180.html"},"modified":"2006-08-11T12:28:20","modified_gmt":"2006-08-11T16:28:20","slug":"hasterts-office-wants-dems-to-offer-humble-gratitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/hasterts-office-wants-dems-to-offer-humble-gratitude\/","title":{"rendered":"Hastert&#8217;s office wants Dems to offer &#8216;humble gratitude&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, I just have to wonder if I live in the same country as <a href=\"http:\/\/releases.usnewswire.com\/GetRelease.asp?id=70598\">these guys<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsunfiltered.com\/archives\/2006\/08\/statement_from_4.html\">via NewsUnfiltered<\/a>).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ron Bonjean, communications director for Speaker of the House J. Dennis Hastert (R-IL) today issued the following statement:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Every day is not an election day, but it seems for the Democrats it is. Today our British allies and U.S. intelligence services were able to identify, intercept, and impede a terrorist plot because we have given them the tools to fight this intelligence-driven Global War on Terror. Instead of humble gratitude, the Democratic Leadership suggested that increasing democracy in the Middle East is distracting us from homeland defense.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Up is down, black is white. When these guys talk about creating their &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthout.org\/docs_04\/101704A.shtml\">own reality<\/a>,&#8221; they&#8217;re really not kidding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, I just have to wonder if I live in the same country as these guys (via NewsUnfiltered). Ron Bonjean, communications director for Speaker of the House J. Dennis Hastert (R-IL) today issued the following statement: &#8220;Every day is not an election day, but it seems for the Democrats it is. Today our British allies [&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-8180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8180","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=8180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}