{"id":21495,"date":"2010-12-13T13:26:46","date_gmt":"2010-12-13T17:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=21495"},"modified":"2010-12-13T13:34:43","modified_gmt":"2010-12-13T17:34:43","slug":"iavas-paul-rieckhoff-this-senate-sucks-a-lot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21495","title":{"rendered":"IAVA’s Paul Rieckhoff: This Senate sucks a lot"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember all of the shit we went through with IAVA’s scorecard the last two election cycles (2008<\/a> and 2010<\/a> and interim the 2009 post about “nonpartisan IAVA<\/a>“)? Well, Executive Director Paul Rieckhoff writes in the Huffington Post<\/a> today;<\/p>\n

So how much does this Senate suck?<\/p>\n

A lot.<\/p>\n

This has definitely been a year of incredible frustration and stagnation in Washington. Without a doubt, it\u2019s the worst I’ve seen it in my short time working as an advocate on Capitol Hill. But in the last week, the inaction and incompetence in Congress was taken to a whole new level. This Senate is so backwards, so ineffective, so lacking in leadership, it\u2019s almost hard to put it into words. Unless you use a term that comes from the military: FUBAR.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hey, um, fuckstick, you helped put them there. All of that bullshit “nonpartisanship”, stacked and manipulated vote rating got you the current cluster of mental midgets in Congress. And it’s only going to get worse, Paul. The Blue Dog Democrats have been replaced by hardcore Republicans – and the morons like Jim McDermott and Nancy Pelosi who you gave high ratings are only going to get more hardheaded. Yeah, I know they’re not in the Senate, but you get the gist, right?<\/p>\n

That’s why when you sent me a personal invitation to your latest IAVA social circle jerk, I didn’t even bother to answer. You might want to reach out, but I’d rather cut your stupid dick off. I hope you enjoy your cows coming home to roost or some other stupid mixed metaphor. Dick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Remember all of the shit we went through with IAVA’s scorecard the last two election cycles … IAVA’s Paul Rieckhoff: This Senate sucks a lot<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiwar-crowd","category-iava"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}