{"id":20494,"date":"2013-09-22T17:49:45","date_gmt":"2013-09-22T21:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=20494"},"modified":"2013-09-22T17:49:46","modified_gmt":"2013-09-22T21:49:46","slug":"our-representatives-have-forgotten-who-they-represent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=20494","title":{"rendered":"Our Representatives Have Forgotten Who They Represent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the problems with <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Patient_Protection_and_Affordable_Care_Act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">ObamaCare<\/a> is the number of exemptions that have been carved out for <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Barack Obama\" href=\"http:\/\/www.barackobama.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">President Obama&#8217;s<\/a> chosen few. Congress and <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States Congress\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.8897222222,-77.0088888889&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=38.8897222222,-77.0088888889 (United%20States%20Congress)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Congressional<\/a> staffers will receive massive subsidies from the government to ensure that they are not negatively impacted by the increased premiums in ObamaCare. Therefore, Congressmen&#8211;establishment Republicans and <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Democratic Party (United States)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.democrats.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Democrats<\/a> have no incentive to repeal a really bad law. <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"The Tea Party\" href=\"http:\/\/teaparty.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">The Tea Party<\/a> candidates who were elected to end ObamaCare are really the only people in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Washington (state)\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=47.5,-120.5&amp;spn=3.0,3.0&amp;q=47.5,-120.5 (Washington%20%28state%29)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Washington<\/a> fighting this battle. <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Ted Cruz\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tedcruz.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Ted Cruz<\/a> is leading the charge. Thus, what you are about to read below is not really a surprise.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/stories\/2013\/09\/22\/chris-wallace-top-republicans-sent-me-opposition-research-on-ted-cruz-to-hammer-him-with\/\">The Blaze<\/a> reported today that <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Chris Wallace\" href=\"http:\/\/foxnews.com\/on-air\/personalities\/chris-wallace\/bio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Chris Wallace<\/a> told the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"FOX News Sunday - Full Episodes and Clips streaming online for free\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hulu.com\/fox-news-sunday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"hulu\">Fox News Sunday<\/a> audience this morning:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u201cThis has been one of the strangest weeks I\u2019ve ever had in Washington,\u201d Wallace said. \u201cAs soon as we listed Ted Cruz as our featured guest this week, I got unsolicited research and questions, not from Democrats but from top Republicans, to hammer Cruz.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is the clip:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/videos.mediaite.com\/embed\/player\/?content_type=content_item&amp;layout=&amp;playlist_cid=&amp;content=RN1SXT34WRL66X17&amp;widget_type_cid=svp&amp;read_more=1\" height=\"421\" width=\"420\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately Congress no longer represents the wishes of the American people. Both Republicans and Democrats have become the problem. The only people fighting for the rest of us are the Tea Party candidates. Please remember that next November.<\/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;\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=8ef34119-df62-4d19-9769-8f65a7acd421\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the problems with ObamaCare is the number of exemptions that have been carved out for President Obama&#8217;s chosen few. 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