{"id":6627,"date":"2011-12-06T17:16:10","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T17:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=6627"},"modified":"2011-12-06T17:16:10","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T17:16:10","slug":"and-from-the-it-all-depends-on-what-the-definition-of-the-term-is-is-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=6627","title":{"rendered":"And, From The &#8220;It All Depends On What The Definition Of The Term &#8216;Is&#8217; Is&#8221; Department."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"And%2C%20From%20The%20%22It%20All%20Depends%20On%20What%20The%20Definition%20Of%20The%20Term%20%27Is%27%20Is%22%20Department.\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>The ban on earmarks is holding up quite well. Of course, now you don&#8217;t need earmarks, because now they are calling them &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/after-earmark-ban-lawmakers-try-to-direct-money-to-hundreds-of-pet-projects\/2011\/11\/29\/gIQA2L2WAO_story.html\">special provisions<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>In the same fashion, Newt <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/11\/30\/us\/politics\/gingrich-gave-push-to-clients-not-just-ideas.html?_r=3&#038;hp=&#038;pagewanted=all\">was NOT a lobbyist<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Hat tip goes out to Senators Claire McCaskill (D) and Pat Toomey (R) for trying to hold their constituent feet to the fire. Too bad they will fail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"And%2C%20From%20The%20%22It%20All%20Depends%20On%20What%20The%20Definition%20Of%20The%20Term%20%27Is%27%20Is%22%20Department.\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>The ban on earmarks is holding up quite well. Of course, now you don&#8217;t need earmarks, because now they are calling them &#8220;special provisions&#8220;. In the same fashion, Newt was NOT a lobbyist. Hat tip goes out to Senators Claire McCaskill (D) and Pat Toomey (R) for trying to hold their constituent feet to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6627"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6628,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6627\/revisions\/6628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}