{"id":16306,"date":"2012-11-14T13:14:03","date_gmt":"2012-11-14T18:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=16306"},"modified":"2012-11-14T13:14:03","modified_gmt":"2012-11-14T18:14:03","slug":"fiddling-while-rome-burns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=16306","title":{"rendered":"Fiddling While Rome Burns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s nice that <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States Congress\" href=\"http:\/\/www.house.gov\/\" rel=\"homepage\" target=\"_blank\">Congress<\/a> is back to work after the election. Between expiring tax cuts and the new taxes of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Patient_Protection_and_Affordable_Care_Act\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">ObamaCare<\/a>, we are facing a fiscal cliff on January 1, so it is good to see Congress back to work addressing the task at hand. Just yesterday, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/washington.cbslocal.com\/2012\/11\/14\/senate-votes-on-polar-bear-carcasses-in-first-roll-call-since-september\/\">CBS News<\/a>, the Senate voted 92-5 to debate a bill to ease restrictions on hunters and fishermen and allow 41 U.S. hunters to bring home polar bear carcasses trapped in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Canada\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=45.4,-75.6666666667&amp;spn=10.0,10.0&amp;q=45.4,-75.6666666667 (Canada)&amp;t=h\" rel=\"geolocation\" target=\"_blank\">Canada<\/a> due to a ban on trophy imports.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The polar bear provision would allow the 41 hunters \u2014 two are from Tester\u2019s home state\u2014 who killed <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Polar Bear\" href=\"http:\/\/seaworld.org\/animal-info\/animal-bytes\/animalia\/eumetazoa\/coelomates\/deuterostomes\/chordata\/craniata\/mammalia\/carnivora\/polar-bear.htm\" rel=\"seaworld\" target=\"_blank\">polar bears<\/a> in Canada just before a 2008 ban on polar bear trophy imports took effect to bring the bears\u2019 bodies across the border. The hunters involved were not able to bring the trophies home before the Fish and <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Wildlife Services\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aphis.usda.gov\/wildlife_damage\" rel=\"homepage\" target=\"_blank\">Wildlife Services<\/a> listed them as a threatened species.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The bill has bipartisan support and is backed by the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"National Rifle Association\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.8630555556,-77.3355&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=38.8630555556,-77.3355 (National%20Rifle%20Association)&amp;t=h\" rel=\"geolocation\" target=\"_blank\">National Rifle Association<\/a> and the National <a id=\"FALINK_2_0_1\" href=\"http:\/\/washington.cbslocal.com\/2012\/11\/14\/senate-votes-on-polar-bear-carcasses-in-first-roll-call-since-september\/#\">Wildlife Federation<\/a>. The <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"White House\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.8976694444,-77.03655&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=38.8976694444,-77.03655 (White%20House)&amp;t=h\" rel=\"geolocation\" target=\"_blank\">White House<\/a> said Tuesday that the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Obama administration\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/obama-administration\" rel=\"homepage\" target=\"_blank\">Obama administration<\/a> also supports the bill.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I guess I am glad that Congress is back to work on something.<\/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\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=cd74cdb7-90f5-4f07-b710-331e999dbb81\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s nice that Congress is back to work after the election. Between expiring tax cuts and the new taxes of ObamaCare, we are facing a fiscal cliff on January 1, so it is good to see Congress back to work &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=16306\">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":[1225,452,733,3286,92,4357,211,4356],"class_list":["post-16306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-canada","tag-cbs-news","tag-harry-reid","tag-national-rifle-association","tag-national-wildlife-federation","tag-polar-bear","tag-white-house","tag-wildlife-services"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16306","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=16306"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16308,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16306\/revisions\/16308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}