{"id":14447,"date":"2015-01-04T00:05:32","date_gmt":"2015-01-04T08:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=14447"},"modified":"2015-01-04T00:05:32","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T08:05:32","slug":"meet-the-enemy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/04\/meet-the-enemy\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Enemy"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m sorry to report that the new Republican controlled Congress begins this week.  Some of our old nemeses will be there.  In addition, we will be getting a crop of new  extremists that promise to move the Republican Reich even further right.  Here\u2019s one of them:<\/font><\/p>\n

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…Glenn Grothman<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"0104GrothmanHat\"In Wisconsin\u2019s 6th Congressional District, Tom Petri, an establishment Republican who may or may not be seriously ethically challenged [propaganda delinked<\/em>], opted not to seek a 19th term in the House this year. When voters in Petri\u2019s district replaced him with state legislator Glenn Grothman, it marked a political shift from the right to the far right.<\/p>\n

You can\u2019t spell \u201cGrothman\u201d without some of the letters you need to spell \u201ctroglodyte,\u201d and his views on issues like race, gender and LGBT rights make him one of the most incendiary incoming House Republicans. Grothman once said that Martin Luther King Jr. Day shouldn\u2019t be a state holiday,<\/a> and he has opposed equal pay legislation on the grounds that \u201cmoney is more important for men. [propaganda delinked<\/em>]\u201d Meanwhile, Grothman charges that gay teachers have an agenda to turn their students gay<\/a>, and he blasted<\/a> Secretary of State John Kerry for opposing a Ugandan law that imposes 10 years in prison for homosexuality.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe send scientists to Africa to say how wonderful the homosexual lifestyle is,\u201d Grothman said in April. \u201cIt is just unbelievable what has become of our country.\u201d…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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This is only one of five new terrifying Republican extremists that will be polluting Congress this week.  Click through for the other four.  If you\u2019re you\u2019ll acquire an extra generous supply of barf bags.  You\u2019re going to need them.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m sorry to report that the new Republican controlled Congress begins this week.  Some of our old nemeses will be there.  In addition, we will be getting a crop of new  extremists that promise to move the Republican Reich even further right.  Here\u2019s one of them: …Glenn Grothman In Wisconsin\u2019s 6th Congressional District, Tom Petri, […]<\/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-14447","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\/14447","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=14447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}