{"id":16505,"date":"2013-05-01T17:07:51","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T22:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=16505"},"modified":"2013-05-01T17:07:51","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T22:07:51","slug":"senator-kelly-ayotte-going-down-in-flames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/01\/senator-kelly-ayotte-going-down-in-flames\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator Kelly Ayotte: Going down in flames"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, guess what? It turns out that if 90% of the people want something, and it is the only right thing to do, and not doing it not only &#8220;not the right thing&#8221; but it is also an abysmally horrid, insensitive, immoral, and boneheaded thing to do, that YOU LOSE.<\/p>\n<p>Republican Senator Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire is going down in flames. She will be voted out of office entirely on the basis of her no vote on the background check law.  Good bye Kelly.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to see the mechanism of pushback against hate and gun nuttery, have a look:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"420\" height=\"245\" id=\"msnbc31d104\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" \/><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"launch=51726236&amp;width=420&amp;height=245\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:11px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #999; margin-top: 5px; background: transparent; text-align: center; width: 420px;\">Visit NBCNews.com for <a style=\"text-decoration:none !important; border-bottom: 1px dotted #999 !important; font-weight:normal !important; height: 13px; color:#5799DB !important;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\">breaking news<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032507\" style=\"text-decoration:none !important; border-bottom: 1px dotted #999 !important; font-weight:normal !important; height: 13px; color:#5799DB !important;\">world news<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032072\" style=\"text-decoration:none !important; border-bottom: 1px dotted #999 !important; font-weight:normal !important; height: 13px; color:#5799DB !important;\">news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, guess what? It turns out that if 90% of the people want something, and it is the only right thing to do, and not doing it not only &#8220;not the right thing&#8221; but it is also an abysmally horrid, insensitive, immoral, and boneheaded thing to do, that YOU LOSE. Republican Senator Kelly Ayotte of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/01\/senator-kelly-ayotte-going-down-in-flames\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Senator Kelly Ayotte: Going down in flames<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1438,3697,3698,5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-4id","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16505"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}