{"id":2402,"date":"2010-11-08T16:11:29","date_gmt":"2010-11-08T16:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2402"},"modified":"2010-11-08T16:11:29","modified_gmt":"2010-11-08T16:11:29","slug":"just_because_you_won_we_dont_h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2402","title":{"rendered":"Just Because You Won, We Don&#8217;t Have To Send You To Congress Right Away !"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wlsam.com\/Article.asp?id=2011666&amp;spid=\">WLS AM<\/a>&nbsp;in Chicago is reporting that even though Republican Mark Kirk has been elected to the United States Senate, he won&#8217;t be seated in time for the beginning of the lame duck session.&nbsp; There were three Senators who were elected to fill vacant seats in the Senate.&nbsp; They were expected to take their seats in time for the lame duck session which will begin on November 15.&nbsp; Well, oddly enough the two Democrats that won will be taking their seats immediately, but Illinois can&#8217;t get the paperwork done on Mark Kirk to get him to the Senate before December.&nbsp; This is the kind of shenanigans that angered the voters in the first place.&nbsp; This is what those of us who live in Massachusetts watched with the election of Scott Brown.&nbsp; Even though he won the election, the Democrats tried to keep him out of the Senate for as long as possible.&nbsp; It would be nice if the Democrats would seat people when they are supposed to be seated instead of being sore losers and playing games with the electoral process.&nbsp; This makes me wonder what mischief the Democrats have planned for Congress in the last two weeks of November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WLS AM&nbsp;in Chicago is reporting that even though Republican Mark Kirk has been elected to the United States Senate, he won&#8217;t be seated in time for the beginning of the lame duck session.&nbsp; There were three Senators who were elected &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2402\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}