{"id":75,"date":"2006-10-20T09:48:20","date_gmt":"2006-10-20T15:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/?p=75"},"modified":"2006-10-20T09:50:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-20T15:50:00","slug":"talking-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/talking-points\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking Points"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been making phone calls through MoveOn.org (it&#8217;s fabuous, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/political.moveon.org\/phone\/volunteer\/\">callforchange.org)<\/a>, and it&#8217;s forced me to think about how to distill the many travesties of the Republican government into a 15-second litany.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what I&#8221;ve come up with:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>restore checks and balances; this Congress is a rubber stamp<\/li>\n<li>curb the President&#8217;s monarchist tendencies<\/li>\n<li>correct Congressional inaction on minimum wage, health care, homeland security measures, and energy policy<\/li>\n<li>correct horrible legislation such as Medicare Part D and the Military Commissions Act (aka the torture bill)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Am I coverering the high (low) points?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been making phone calls through MoveOn.org (it&#8217;s fabuous, go to callforchange.org), and it&#8217;s forced me to think about how to distill the many travesties of the Republican government into a 15-second litany. Here&#8217;s what I&#8221;ve come up with: restore checks and balances; this Congress is a rubber stamp curb the President&#8217;s monarchist tendencies correct [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","cat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}