{"id":10313,"date":"2013-05-05T12:19:31","date_gmt":"2013-05-05T19:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=10313"},"modified":"2013-05-05T12:19:31","modified_gmt":"2013-05-05T19:19:31","slug":"the-freak-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/05\/the-freak-show\/","title":{"rendered":"The Freak Show"},"content":{"rendered":"

Given that  my chair is more comfortable than my bed, let me try to give you at least least a little coverage of the Republican hate Obama and celebrate the murders festival.  What I have seen is more ugly than that description.<\/font><\/p>\n

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In speech after speech at the National Rifle Association<\/a>\u2019s annual convention here this weekend, its top leaders and political allies blasted President Obama and other gun control advocates, warned against \u201call-out, historic attacks\u201d on the constitutional right to possess firearms, and issued a rallying cry to members to become a political force in next year\u2019s midterm elections and the 2016 presidential rac\u2026<\/p>\n

…The lineup of speakers at Friday\u2019s Leadership Forum looked like the early field for the 2016 Republican presidential primaries, featuring Senator Ted Cruz and Gov. Rick Perry of Texas, Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, and Sarah Palin, the former Alaska governor and Republican vice-presidential candidate, as well as video appearances by Representative Paul Ryan and Gov. Scott Walker, both of Wisconsin. <\/p>\n

Ms. Palin, wearing a black T-shirt that said \u201cWomen Hunt,\u201d criticized gun control proposals that \u201cwon\u2019t even work for their stated intended purposes.\u201d Mr. Cruz warned that any infringement on the Bill of Rights would undermine the entire Constitution. And just about every speaker poked fun at the N.R.A.\u2019s favorite cast of enemies: Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., Senator Dianne Feinstein of California, Senator Charles E. Schumer of New York, and Mr. Bloomberg, whom Mr. LaPierre described as the \u201cnational nanny.\u201d <\/p>\n

Critics of the N.R.A. lined up outside the convention center\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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A northern war of aggression ?!!? Riiiiiiight!  On the rest of their raving, you decide.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Given that  my chair is more comfortable than my bed, let me try to give you at least least a little coverage of the Republican hate Obama and celebrate the murders festival.  What I have seen is more ugly than that description. In speech after speech at the National Rifle Association\u2019s annual convention here this […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}