{"id":638,"date":"2008-10-04T21:17:19","date_gmt":"2008-10-04T20:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=638"},"modified":"2008-10-04T21:17:19","modified_gmt":"2008-10-04T20:17:19","slug":"a-glimmer-of-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=638","title":{"rendered":"A glimmer of Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article is amusing as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2008\/10\/03\/the_bailout_and_the_pundits\/\"> Sudden outbreak of democracy baffles US pundits<\/a>. I was chilled by the observation that the Media and Pundits were so amazed at the opposition reaction to the Congressional bail out.  The observation of this writer, was spot on with the snobs being snubbed by the general population. What would happen if the banks holding flaky mortgages failed, what if all the marginal mortgage holders were just granted the properties held by the banks. and then allow the banks fail. Wouldn&#8217;t that be real justice for corrupt banking and financial managers? <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/quotes.liberty-tree.ca\/quote\/edmund_burke_quote_7184\"><br \/>\n&#8220;Your representative owes you,<br \/>\nnot his industry only, but his judgment;<br \/>\nand he betrays, instead of serving you,<br \/>\nif he sacrifices it to your opinion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Edmund Burke<br \/>\n(1729-1797) Irish-born British statesman, parliamentary orator, and political thinker<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Congress must make some hard decisions and it&#8217;s now time to standup and make them. <\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article is amusing as a Sudden outbreak of democracy baffles US pundits. I was chilled by the observation that the Media and Pundits were so amazed at the opposition reaction to the Congressional bail out. The observation of this<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=638\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A glimmer of Democracy<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,30,66,68,8,41],"tags":[137,667,138,670,139],"class_list":["post-638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democracy","category-economy","category-election","category-government","category-politics","category-press","tag-congress","tag-democracy","tag-politicians","tag-press","tag-pundits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":639,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions\/639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}