{"id":5712,"date":"2011-08-28T00:05:17","date_gmt":"2011-08-28T07:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5712"},"modified":"2011-08-28T00:05:17","modified_gmt":"2011-08-28T07:05:17","slug":"another-lying-republican-gets-an-earful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/28\/another-lying-republican-gets-an-earful\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Lying Republican Gets an Earful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I have heard many ask why Barack Obama has not called Congress back from their summer recess due to the catastrophic ills Republican political strategy has visited upon this nation.&#160; Frankly, I think they are better off at home.&#160; While they are away, they cannot hurt America. More important, they need to hear what their constituents have to say.&#160; Here, another lying Republican gets an earful from his.<\/font><\/p>\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=\"28LundgrenHat\" border=\"0\" alt=\"28LundgrenHat\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/28LundgrenHat.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"273\" \/>At a town hall last Wednesday attended by ThinkProgress, Rep. Dan Lungren (R-CA) was asked why he supports the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy since America has lost millions of jobs since its passage. When Lungren deflected, saying that everyone benefits from the Bush tax cuts and that Obama supported extending them, <strong>several people began jeering him<\/strong>. Lungren, who at one point threatened to leave the Carmichael town hall, <strong>said he doesn\u2019t know of any economists who support raising taxes during a recession<\/strong>. Ironically, that same day the National Association for Business Economics <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/us-raise-taxes-help-fix-deficits-business-economists-213119554.html\" target=\"_blank\">released<\/a> a study showing nearly <strong>three quarters of business economists stating they support raising revenues through taxes<\/strong>&#8230; [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/economy\/2011\/08\/27\/305980\/lungren-bush-tax-cut\/\" target=\"_blank\">Think Progress<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here\u2019s the video.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tYYHKBiAFYA?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">One positive sign is that voters are seeing through the tired old lies Republicans keep using to provide welfare for millionaires, billionaires and corporate criminals by taking away from those who can least afford it.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have heard many ask why Barack Obama has not called Congress back from their summer recess due to the catastrophic ills Republican political strategy has visited upon this nation.&#160; Frankly, I think they are better off at home.&#160; While they are away, they cannot hurt America. More important, they need to hear what their <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/28\/another-lying-republican-gets-an-earful\/' 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-5712","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\/5712","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=5712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}