{"id":26999,"date":"2009-08-28T17:56:36","date_gmt":"2009-08-28T17:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/08\/28\/lockstep-republicans-stoopid\/"},"modified":"2009-08-28T17:56:36","modified_gmt":"2009-08-28T17:56:36","slug":"lockstep-republicans-stoopid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/28\/lockstep-republicans-stoopid\/","title":{"rendered":"Lockstep Republicans = Stoopid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I made the point in an earlier post (<a href=\"http:\/\/quichemoraine.com\/2009\/08\/discordant-democrats-vs-republican-dittoheads\/\">Discordant Democrats vs. Republican Dittohead<\/a>s) that Republicans work in lock step and simply do whatever they are told.  I&#8217;m not talking (necessarily) about the average Joe the Plumber Republican.  I&#8217;m talking about elected officials with law degrees. The average United States Senator or Representative who happens to be a Republican needs not think, read, or consider.  All he or she needs to do is listen to the orders and follow them.  Thining on one&#8217;s own is simply  not done.<\/p>\n<p>Does that sound like a typical Greg Laden over the top bit of hyperbole?  It does?  Ha!  This time it is not!<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At a town hall meeting Wednesday Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) told Chickasha residents he does not need to read the 1,000 page health care reform bill, he will simply vote against it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t have to read it, or know what&#8217;s in it. I&#8217;m going to oppose it anyways,&#8221; he said..<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is not upholding the duties of the office.  For this sort of stupidity he should be impeached.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chickashanews.com\/local\/local_story_239102559.html\/\">Details<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made the point in an earlier post (Discordant Democrats vs. Republican Dittoheads) that Republicans work in lock step and simply do whatever they are told. I&#8217;m not talking (necessarily) about the average Joe the Plumber Republican. I&#8217;m talking about elected officials with law degrees. The average United States Senator or Representative who happens to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/28\/lockstep-republicans-stoopid\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lockstep Republicans = Stoopid<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[306],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-71t","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26999"}],"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=26999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}