{"id":76,"date":"2009-09-29T01:24:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T09:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=76"},"modified":"2009-09-29T01:24:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-29T09:24:00","slug":"a-little-less-delay-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2009\/09\/29\/a-little-less-delay-please\/","title":{"rendered":"A Little Less Delay, Please"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a subject that engenders complete disgust.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\">Former GOP congressman Tom DeLay is back tonight for week two of ABC\u2019s Dancing With the Stars. Truth be told, we\u2019re still not quite over the shock of DeLay\u2019s debut\u2014all that exaggerated booty shaking, it still haunts us. But it was awesome TV\u2014so awesome, we almost forgot that <strong>DeLay is still awaiting trial on charges he broke campaign-finance laws in Texas<\/strong>&#8230; [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.newsweek.com\/blogs\/thegaggle\/archive\/2009\/09\/28\/suddenly-disgraced-politicians-are-cool-again.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">The Gaggle<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p>Now, if the thought of it is not sufficient to bile to your throat, this will.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<object width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/R772tbxa6dU&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/R772tbxa6dU&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Randal!!&#160; Stop that!!!&#160; You\u2019re supposed to be looking at how clumsy Tom Delay is!&#160; Stop looking at the girl!!&#160; Now!!&#160; Randal, pay attention!&#160; Please!!<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I hope he is as incompetent in court as he is on the dance floor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a subject that engenders complete disgust. Former GOP congressman Tom DeLay is back tonight for week two of ABC\u2019s Dancing With the Stars. Truth be told, we\u2019re still not quite over the shock of DeLay\u2019s debut\u2014all that exaggerated booty shaking, it still haunts us. But it was awesome TV\u2014so awesome, we almost forgot <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2009\/09\/29\/a-little-less-delay-please\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","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=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}