{"id":10886,"date":"2011-12-15T16:55:22","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T21:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=10886"},"modified":"2011-12-15T16:55:22","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T21:55:22","slug":"theres-something-rather-ironic-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=10886","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s Something Rather Ironic Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Hinderaker at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2011\/12\/a-report-from-the-lbj-library.php\">Power LIne<\/a>\u00a0reported today on a speech Attorney General Eric Holder gave at the LBJ Library on election reform. Attorney General Holder denounced the Texas voter id laws as discriminatory and said that he would use the power of his office to enforce civil rights protections during the 2012 elections.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>One last bit of irony \u2014 if not hypocrisy \u2014 was experienced as people lined up to enter the LBJ Library to hear AG Holder rail against voter ID laws. As each person entered the library they were required to present their photo IDs in order to be allowed in to hear the speech.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If Attorney General Holder feels a photo ID is necessary to hear him speak, why isn&#8217;t a photo ID necessary in order to vote?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"float: right; border-style: none;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=71410130-ebb2-49df-9fe6-f0b4a61177a4\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Hinderaker at Power LIne\u00a0reported today on a speech Attorney General Eric Holder gave at the LBJ Library on election reform. Attorney General Holder denounced the Texas voter id laws as discriminatory and said that he would use the power &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=10886\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1554,395,1555,1553,163,285,68,1556],"class_list":["post-10886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-attorney-general","tag-eric-holder","tag-lbj-library","tag-lyndon-baines-johnson-library-and-museum","tag-texas","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-department-of-justice","tag-voter-identification-laws"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10887,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10886\/revisions\/10887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}