{"id":1709,"date":"2009-08-20T22:26:29","date_gmt":"2009-08-21T03:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/?p=1709"},"modified":"2009-08-20T22:26:29","modified_gmt":"2009-08-21T03:26:29","slug":"to-the-tea-party-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/20\/to-the-tea-party-people\/","title":{"rendered":"To the Tea Party People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You didn&#8217;t get mad when Cheney allowed energy company officials to dictate energy policy resulting in suffering and death in western states.<\/p>\n<p>You didn&#8217;t get mad when a covert CIA operative got outed.<\/p>\n<p>You didn&#8217;t get mad when the Patriot Act got passed.<\/p>\n<p>You didn&#8217;t get mad when we illegally invaded a country that posed no threat to us.<\/p>\n<p>You didn&#8217;t get mad when we spent over $600 billion(and counting) on said illegal war.<\/p>\n<p>You didn&#8217;t get mad when over 10 billion dollars simply \u201edisappeared\u2030 in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>You didn&#8217;t get mad when you saw the Abu Ghraib photos.<\/p>\n<p>You didn&#8217;t get mad when you found out we were torturing people &#038; children.<\/p>\n<p>You didn&#8217;t get mad when the government was illegally wire tapping Americans.<\/p>\n<p>You didn&#8217;t get mad when we didn&#8217;t catch Bin Laden.<\/p>\n<p>You didn&#8217;t get mad when you saw the horrible conditions at Walter Reed.<\/p>\n<p>You didn&#8217;t get mad when we let a major US city drown.<\/p>\n<p>You didn&#8217;t get mad when the deficit hit the trillion dollar mark during the<br \/>\nBush years after he inherited a surplus from Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>You finally got mad when.. when&#8230; (wait for it&#8230; ) when the government decided that people in America deserved the right to see a doctor if they are sick.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, illegal wars, lies, corruption, torture, stealing your tax dollars to make the rich richer, are all okay with you, but helping other Americans&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>That about right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You didn&#8217;t get mad when Cheney allowed energy company officials to dictate energy policy resulting in suffering and death in western states. You didn&#8217;t get mad when a covert CIA operative got outed. You didn&#8217;t get mad when the Patriot &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/20\/to-the-tea-party-people\/\">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":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-newscommentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1710,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709\/revisions\/1710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}