{"id":2464,"date":"2013-10-02T06:39:48","date_gmt":"2013-10-02T10:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/?p=2464"},"modified":"2013-10-02T07:53:41","modified_gmt":"2013-10-02T11:53:41","slug":"thanks-ted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/?p=2464","title":{"rendered":"Thanks, Ted!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d like to offer my sincere thanks to Ted Cruz and other far-right Republicans in the House \u00a0of Representatives for giving me extra time to work on the RV for the next few days. \u00a0Of course, I probably won&#8217;t be able to pay my daughter&#8217;s college tuition in December but life is full of little trade-offs, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>Thanks also to Ted and his colleagues for showing us what modern democratic governance is all about. \u00a0After all, less-capable leaders would put their narrow political self-interests in reelection, and the desire to pander to their power base, above the national good by throwing the political equivalent of a tantrum. \u00a0But not you, Ted, or your Tea Party friends&#8230;good on you!<\/p>\n<p>A big thumbs up to John Boehner as well for refusing to cave in to all those nasty, wrong-headed, moderate Republican turncoats who don&#8217;t see the burning need to defeat Obama at all costs&#8230;costs that include wrecking the nation&#8217;s economy, and depriving it of a functioning government infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>And finally, kudos to Congress in general for not jumping on the no-pay bandwagon after sending 800,000 civil servants home without income. \u00a0Who knows what damage would be done to the DC economy if our wealthy senators and representatives didn&#8217;t get paid? I can only imagine what the economic impact would be to Washington&#8217;s liquor stores.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, December will be here before we know it. Anybody need a 50-year old kidney? I&#8217;ll make you a great deal&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d like to offer my sincere thanks to Ted Cruz and other far-right Republicans in the House \u00a0of Representatives for giving me extra time to work on the RV for the next few days. \u00a0Of course, I probably won&#8217;t be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/?p=2464\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2464"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2476,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464\/revisions\/2476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}