{"id":25160,"date":"2018-06-07T09:47:33","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T14:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=25160"},"modified":"2018-06-07T15:05:53","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T20:05:53","slug":"pete-stauber-for-mother-pie-and-apple-hood-and-dog-bodies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=25160","title":{"rendered":"Pete Stauber for Motherhood and Apple Pie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just checked out Pete Stauber&#8217;s campaign <a href=\"https:\/\/petestauberforcongress.com\/issues\/\">issue page<\/a>. Typical Republican tripe but I&#8217;ll admit I haven&#8217;t read beyond the headlines yet. I will comment on the various issues when I&#8217;ve got the time. They are:<\/p>\n<p><em>Holy crap!<\/em> I just looked at it again. His page is truly light in the loafers. Each issue has just one lousy sentence explaining what it means. They are all shorter than a Trump tweet. Sad! Check it out. You can plumb Pete Stauber&#8217;s mind in about 20 seconds. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Second Amendment<\/strong> (One of Pete&#8217;s colleagues on the Duluth police force was shot to death by a man excercising his second amendment rights. I hope Pete&#8217;s take is nuanced.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abortion<\/strong> (I wonder if like the rest of his party Pete would classify me as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snowbizz.com\/Diogenes\/NotEudora02\/sympathyformmurder.htm\">&#8220;worse mass murderer&#8221;<\/a> than Mao, Stalin and Hitler?)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ridiculing Obamacare<\/strong> (no doubt preferring the non insurance of his future Congressional Republican allies)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Immigration<\/strong> (He&#8217;s for &#8220;the law&#8221; of nature using our trecherous deserts the way Europeans count on the Mediterranean to drown unwanted refugees)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mining<\/strong> (like I said. I haven&#8217;t read these yet.)<\/p>\n<p>and finally <strong>Veterans<\/strong> (There&#8217;s a young fellow from our church congregation back from the middle east who has had about a dozen of his former fellow soldiers commit suicide. I wonder how Pete&#8217;s flag waving will help them?)<\/p>\n<p>This is your typical slick web page that comes with a half million (so far) in Koch Brother&#8217;s fueled campaign donations. <\/p>\n<p>This blog of mine is my own eccentric, eleven-year investment in sharing my thoughts about our nation has zigzagged between two political parties that are brainless tails shaking their dog bodies. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just checked out Pete Stauber&#8217;s campaign issue page. Typical Republican tripe but I&#8217;ll admit I haven&#8217;t read beyond the headlines yet. I will&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2018-congress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25160"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25168,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25160\/revisions\/25168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}