{"id":37425,"date":"2013-09-04T21:32:51","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T01:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37425"},"modified":"2013-09-04T21:32:51","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05T01:32:51","slug":"john-mccain-plays-while-the-republic-burns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37425","title":{"rendered":"John McCain plays while the Republic burns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PintoNag and Ex-PH2 send us links to an <a href=\"http:\/\/usnews.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2013\/09\/04\/20326687-big-deal-mccain-caught-playing-online-poker-during-hearing?lite\">NBC news story<\/a> about John McCain who was busted playing poker during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Syria yesterday. His response?<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=37426\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-37426\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/McCain-poker-300x112.jpg\" alt=\"McCain poker\" width=\"300\" height=\"112\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-37426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/McCain-poker-300x112.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/McCain-poker-500x187.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/McCain-poker.jpg 628w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>  <\/center><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, f*cknut, it is a scandal. Paying attention during a Senate hearing (regardless of the length of the hearing) is the reason we allow you a salary and a fat pension. How about earning it. If I was supposed to be doing what I get paid for, but I was playing poker on my phone instead, I&#8217;d get fired. You, however, get to laugh about someone making a big deal about your piss-poor behavior.<\/p>\n<p>I agree with Matt Drudge, who could possibly vote for Republicans after their performance this week?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PintoNag and Ex-PH2 send us links to an NBC news story about John McCain who was &hellip; <a title=\"John McCain plays while the Republic burns\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37425\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">John McCain plays while the Republic burns<\/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":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress-sucks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37425","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=37425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}