{"id":5954,"date":"2009-06-26T20:07:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-26T20:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/68.169.38.31\/?p=5954"},"modified":"2009-06-26T20:07:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-26T20:07:00","slug":"is-anyone-else-noticing-these-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormogons.com\/index.php\/2009\/06\/is-anyone-else-noticing-these-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Anyone Else Noticing These Things?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s3.images.com\/huge.67.337568.JPG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px;\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.images.com\/huge.67.337568.JPG\" border=\"0\" title=\"How did you know I voted for Obama?\" \/><\/a>Wow.  Thank goodness that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/01\/21\/AR2009012103472.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">President Obama is stopping the poisonous effect of lobbyists on legislation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So he must be pretty ticked that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/gwire\/2009\/06\/26\/26greenwire-lobbying-cash-paved-climate-bills-road-to-hous-97436.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Waxman-Markey Bill was riddled with lobbyist-influenced requirements<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>We can rest assured that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/gwmCarbonEmissions\/idUS328745854820090625\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">the President would never support<\/a> such a bill, as that would make him a hypocritical tool of the lobbyists.<\/p>\n<p>Sleep, citizens, sleep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow. Thank goodness that President Obama is stopping the poisonous effect of lobbyists on legislation. So he must be pretty ticked that Waxman-Markey Bill was riddled with lobbyist-influenced requirements! We can rest assured that the President would never support such <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/gormogons.com\/index.php\/2009\/06\/is-anyone-else-noticing-these-things\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,569],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-5954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-hypocrisy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Is Anyone Else Noticing These Things? - The Gormogons<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/gormogons.com\/index.php\/2009\/06\/is-anyone-else-noticing-these-things\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Is Anyone Else Noticing These Things? - The Gormogons\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Wow. 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