{"id":44349,"date":"2022-01-24T17:33:28","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T22:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=44349"},"modified":"2022-01-24T17:33:28","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T22:33:28","slug":"why-people-hate-politicians-and-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=44349","title":{"rendered":"Why People Hate Politicians And Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If I honestly believed that the majority of those sent to Congress to represent the American people had an ounce of principle, I would be happy. Unfortunately, principle seems to be something in short supply in Washington. The recent debate over ending the filibuster was a shining example of this. When the Democrats are in the minority, they want to keep the filibuster. When the Democrats are in the majority, they want to end the filibuster. The Republicans have maintained a consistent position, as has Senator Joe Manchin.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/guybenson\/2022\/01\/21\/hacks-lets-review-the-list-of-democratic-liars-on-the-filibuster-n2602128?fbclid=IwAR0_dIWSEHUuvSlt8eXUOdfKBnavYI5affmqoLDwsV8ChDSjff-egpyFZr8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Townhall<\/a> posted an article about some of the more obvious flip-flops on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>The article includes the following screenshot of a tweet:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/filibustertweet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-44350 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/filibustertweet.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"519\" height=\"770\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/filibustertweet.jpg 519w, https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/filibustertweet-202x300.jpg 202w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 519px) 100vw, 519px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please follow the link above to read the entire article. There are many people who need to be voted out of office in November.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I honestly believed that the majority of those sent to Congress to represent the American people had an ounce of principle, I would be happy. Unfortunately, principle seems to be something in short supply in Washington. The recent debate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=44349\">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":[853,1925,14840,11619],"class_list":["post-44349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-democrats","tag-filibuster","tag-flip-flop","tag-townhall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44349","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=44349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44351,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44349\/revisions\/44351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}