{"id":5463,"date":"2011-07-26T01:16:51","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T08:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5463"},"modified":"2011-07-26T01:16:51","modified_gmt":"2011-07-26T08:16:51","slug":"a-republican-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/26\/a-republican-world\/","title":{"rendered":"A Republican World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Do you want your grandchildren to grow up in a Republican world?&#160; What would such a world be like.&#160; Leaving the political aspects aside, I will not cover what elections where only \u201capproved\u201d voters could vote, and where electronic safeguards prevented a revolt at the polls by the approved voters, might be like.&#160; Physically, the mean temperature of a Republican world will be higher.&#160; Corporations would be free to spew pollutants until your grandchildren choked on the air they had to breathe and gagged on the water they had to drink.&#160; Republicans are fighting to build that world right now.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"26flamingworld\" border=\"0\" alt=\"26flamingworld\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/26flamingworld.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"374\" \/>With eight days until the country officially defaults on its debts, likely sparking a worldwide credit crisis, the House of Representatives is busy with <strong>legislation aimed at repealing environmental regulations and stymieing conservation efforts<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The Interior and Environmental Protection Agency spending bill for fiscal year 2012 contains policy riders added by panel Republicans to <strong>thwart White House-backed initiatives on everything from the EPA&#8217;s regulation of greenhouse gas emissions to conservation efforts in the Grand Canyon<\/strong>. It would halt new regulations on mountaintop removal mining and prevent the Fish and Wildlife Service from listing new species under the Endangered Species Act\u2026 [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2011\/07\/25\/republicans-criticize-environmental-regulations_n_909138.html\" target=\"_blank\">Huffington Post<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">If your grandchildren deserve better, keep Republicans out of power permanently.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you want your grandchildren to grow up in a Republican world?&#160; What would such a world be like.&#160; Leaving the political aspects aside, I will not cover what elections where only \u201capproved\u201d voters could vote, and where electronic safeguards prevented a revolt at the polls by the approved voters, might be like.&#160; Physically, the <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/26\/a-republican-world\/' 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-5463","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\/5463","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=5463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}