{"id":20579,"date":"2013-10-01T20:43:11","date_gmt":"2013-10-02T00:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=20579"},"modified":"2013-10-01T20:43:11","modified_gmt":"2013-10-02T00:43:11","slug":"the-government-shutdown-wont-work-for-the-democrats-unless-they-can-make-it-hurt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=20579","title":{"rendered":"The Government Shutdown Won&#8217;t Work For The Democrats Unless They Can Make It Hurt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A website called <a href=\"http:\/\/collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com\/2013\/10\/01\/games-in-all-sports-at-service-academies-suspended\/\">College Football Talk<\/a> is reporting today that all <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Sports Games\" href=\"http:\/\/www.break.com\/c\/pop-culture-videos\/games\/sports\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"break\">sports games<\/a> at the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Military academy\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Military_academy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">service academies<\/a> will be cancelled because of the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Government shutdown\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Government_shutdown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">government shutdown<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>In a press release sent out a short time ago, Navy announced that the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States Department of Defense\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.8709888889,-77.0559611111&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=38.8709888889,-77.0559611111 (United%20States%20Department%20of%20Defense)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Department of Defense<\/a> has suspended all intercollegiate competitions at the nation\u2019s service academies due to the government shutdown. \u00a0At the very least, the Air Force-Navy game as well as <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Army\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Army\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Army<\/a>\u2019s game at <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Boston\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=42.3580555556,-71.0636111111&amp;spn=0.1,0.1&amp;q=42.3580555556,-71.0636111111 (Boston)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Boston<\/a> College are in danger of being canceled.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is simply petty. The <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"House - Full Episodes and Clips streaming online for free\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hulu.com\/house\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"hulu\">House<\/a> has passed a number of bills to fund various parts of the government. The Senate has refused to bring these bills to the floor. The Democrats are hoping for a political victory by causing visible pain. If they are successful, we have only ourselves to blame when they do it again.<\/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=b3161489-28d2-4986-9b65-3f3223bb85dd\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A website called College Football Talk is reporting today that all sports games at the service academies will be cancelled because of the government shutdown. The article reports: In a press release sent out a short time ago, Navy announced &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=20579\">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":[3217,785,6408,6152,6388,841,6409,3817],"class_list":["post-20579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-army","tag-boston","tag-boston-college","tag-college-football","tag-government-shutdown","tag-house","tag-military-academy","tag-united-states-department-of-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20579","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=20579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20580,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20579\/revisions\/20580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}