{"id":505,"date":"2010-12-21T11:45:15","date_gmt":"2010-12-21T16:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/?p=505"},"modified":"2010-12-21T11:45:15","modified_gmt":"2010-12-21T16:45:15","slug":"boehners-crocodile-tears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/?p=505","title":{"rendered":"Boehner&#8217;s Crocodile Tears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Boehner, soon to be Speaker of the House, has been crying a lot lately. However, judging by <a title=\"On The Issues - John Boehner\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ontheissues.org\/OH\/John_Boehner.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Boehner&#8217;s votes<\/a>, he doesn&#8217;t seem to be all too sincere about the things he &#8220;cares&#8221; and &#8220;cries&#8221; about such as children having the same opportunity as him for the &#8220;American Dream&#8221;. Here&#8217;s some of his recent votes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Voted against SCHIP (the program that provides health care to poor children)<\/li>\n<li>Voted against the stimulus (which gave people\/saved jobs, among other things)<\/li>\n<li>Voted against the 9\/11 first responders bill (which gave health care to those who helped clean up 9\/11)<\/li>\n<li>For free trade and trade agreements that made it easier to ship jobs overseas<\/li>\n<li>Wants to cut everything except defense in discretionary spending (such as education, infrastructure, agriculture which only accounts for 43% of discretionary spending)<\/li>\n<li>Opposes hiring more women and minorities<\/li>\n<li>Opposes federal funding for health care<\/li>\n<li>Voted against the DREAM Act (which would give children who were brought here at a young age a path to citizenship)<\/li>\n<li>Opposes amnesty and a path for undocumented workers becoming citizens<\/li>\n<li>Voted against modifying bankruptcy laws (which would have avoided foreclosures)<\/li>\n<li>For cutting education (also voted against grants for minority colleges and green public schools)<\/li>\n<li>Voted against HCR (which had laws against children and people being denied health care due to preexisting conditions, among many other things)<\/li>\n<li>Voted for spending that ran up the national debt during Bush (which leaves the debt to our children)<\/li>\n<li>Voted against middle class tax cuts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A very good actor, that tan man is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Boehner, soon to be Speaker of the House, has been crying a lot lately. However, judging by Boehner&#8217;s votes, he doesn&#8217;t seem to be all too sincere about the things he &#8220;cares&#8221; and &#8220;cries&#8221; about such as children having the same opportunity as him for the &#8220;American Dream&#8221;. Here&#8217;s some of his recent votes: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":506,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions\/506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}