{"id":13543,"date":"2014-08-26T00:54:19","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T07:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=13543"},"modified":"2014-08-26T00:58:33","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T07:58:33","slug":"bought-bitch-busted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/26\/bought-bitch-busted\/","title":{"rendered":"Bought Bitch Busted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">There are few Americans, that have dome more destroy this nation&rsquo;s human and economic rights than Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), popularly known as Bought Bitch Mitch.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; He has even gone so far as to call for more government shutdowns, even though the last time Republicans did so, they cost US taxpayers millions, because of the damage they did to our credit rating.&nbsp; At last, someone is calling him out on it.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" alt=\"BoughtBitchMitch\" height=\"236\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/BoughtBitchMitch.jpg\" style=\"float: left; display: inline\" title=\"BoughtBitchMitch\" width=\"360\" \/>In a dark new web ad, Alison Lundergan Grimes hits Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) for <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/dc\/mitch-mcconnell-government-shutdown-fights-republican-majority\" target=\"_blank\">signaling confrontation that could spark a government shutdown<\/a> if he becomes majority leader.<\/p>\n<p>The spot &mdash; published Monday on the Democrat&#39;s YouTube page &mdash; plays news clips, spliced with ominous music, about the economically damaging shutdown last fall which one anchor is seen saying it was &quot;hurting Kentuckians.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;And Mitch McConnell wants to do it again,&quot; the ad says, displaying headlines of McConnell&#39;s recent remarks to Politico in which he vowed to use bills which keep the government operational as a vehicle to rein in President Barack Obama&#39;s policies&hellip;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/dc\/alison-grimes-ad-mcconnell-government-shutdown\" target=\"_blank\">TPM<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ntpVl3AM0b0?rel=0\" width=\"640\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Kudos to Alison Grimes.&nbsp; It&rsquo;s about time!&nbsp; Elect Alison!!&nbsp; Dump Mitch!!!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are few Americans, that have dome more destroy this nation&rsquo;s human and economic rights than Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), popularly known as Bought Bitch Mitch.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; He has even gone so far as to call for more government shutdowns, even though the last time Republicans did so, they cost US taxpayers millions, because <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/26\/bought-bitch-busted\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/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-13543","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\/13543","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=13543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}