{"id":12917,"date":"2012-03-22T05:51:12","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T09:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=12917"},"modified":"2012-03-22T05:51:12","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T09:51:12","slug":"congress-what-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=12917","title":{"rendered":"Congress? What Congress?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/Big-Peace\/2012\/03\/21\/obama-bypasses-congress-gives-1-5-billion-to-muslim-brotherhood\">Big Government<\/a>\u00a0posted an article yesterday about America&#8217;s military aid to Egypt. Congress has halted aid to Egypt until and \u201cunless the State Department certifies that Egypt is making progress on basic freedoms and human rights.\u201d\u00a0 President Obama evidently has other ideas. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is expected to announce that America will resume funding Egypt&#8217;s military despite Congressional restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Even Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-VT), a man with whom I\u2019ve never agreed on anything, sees the foolishness of this endeavor: \u201cI believe [sending the aid] would be a mistake. The new [restrictions were] intended to put the United States squarely on the side of the Egyptian people who seek a civilian government that respects fundamental freedoms and the rule of law, and to clearly define the terms of our future relations with the Egyptian military.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If Congress ever intends to be relevant, it needs to get its head out of the sand and confront President Obama on this power grab. Never-mind that Christians, Jews, and innocent civilians are being killed in Egypt on a regular basis by the government brought about by the &#8216;Arab Spring,&#8217; this is simply unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p>Sending military aid to Egypt at this time will do nothing except destabilize the Middle East and make Israel more vulnerable to attack. I think Congress may have figured out that the new government of Egypt is not our friend, but evidently the President hasn&#8217;t.<\/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=ad405c68-ce5b-4742-964b-8e9b51a6761f\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big Government\u00a0posted an article yesterday about America&#8217;s military aid to Egypt. Congress has halted aid to Egypt until and \u201cunless the State Department certifies that Egypt is making progress on basic freedoms and human rights.\u201d\u00a0 President Obama evidently has other &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=12917\">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":[2491,2490,2459,97,735,85,2489,875,2488,285],"class_list":["post-12917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-american-aid-to-egypt","tag-american-military-aid","tag-arab-spring","tag-barack-obama","tag-congress","tag-egypt","tag-egyptian-armed-forces","tag-hillary-rodham-clinton","tag-patrick-leahy","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12917","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=12917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12918,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12917\/revisions\/12918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}