{"id":4111,"date":"2010-07-21T14:29:43","date_gmt":"2010-07-21T19:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=4111"},"modified":"2010-07-21T14:29:43","modified_gmt":"2010-07-21T19:29:43","slug":"the-globe-swallows-republican-lies-whole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=4111","title":{"rendered":"The Globe swallows Republican lies whole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"clear: both\">From Today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/nation\/washington\/articles\/2010\/07\/21\/senate_advances_jobless_benefits\/\">Globe<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"clear: both\">\n<p style=\"clear: both\">Senate Democrats yesterday revived an extension of unemployment benefits for 2.5 million Americans, managing to break through a GOP deadlock rooted in deep disagreements over the economy.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"clear: both\">There is not a shred of reliable evidence that the deadlock was &#8220;rooted in deep disagreements over the economy&#8221;. The deadlock resulted from a purely political decision, made by the Republicans, that it would be to their long term political advantage to block these benefits. While the Republicans may <em>say<\/em> that they have some sort of philosophical problem with extending unemployment benefits, that position is undercut by the fact that they voted for these extensions as a matter of routine in the past. It is wrong to report as fact what is, at best, highly debatable, and is, in actuality, beyond doubt untrue.<\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: both\">\n<p><br class=\"final-break\" style=\"clear: both\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Today&#8217;s Globe: Senate Democrats yesterday revived an extension of unemployment benefits for 2.5 million Americans, managing to break through a GOP deadlock rooted in deep disagreements over the economy. There is not a shred of reliable evidence that the deadlock was &#8220;rooted in deep disagreements over the economy&#8221;. The deadlock resulted from a purely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}