{"id":525,"date":"2008-07-12T21:34:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-13T03:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davintosh.com\/2008\/07\/12\/go-democrats\/"},"modified":"2008-07-12T21:34:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-13T03:34:00","slug":"go-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/2008\/07\/12\/go-democrats\/politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Go, Democrats!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest poll from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/\">Rasumussen Reports<\/a> shows that for the first time <em>ever,<\/em> &#8220;The percentage of voters who give Congress good or excellent ratings has fallen to single digits.&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/mood_of_america\/congressional_performance\/congressional_performance\">link<\/a>) A mere 9 percent of the American people think the Democrat-controlled Legislative Branch of our Federal government is doing a good job; the other 91 percent of us see things more clearly. <\/p>\n<p>So yeah; do we really need or want to have the Executive Branch controlled by another Democrat for the next four years?<\/p>\n<p>Actually, a low approval rating means that Congress isn&#8217;t doing much, and when that happens, it is a Very Good Thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest poll from Rasumussen Reports shows that for the first time ever, &#8220;The percentage of voters who give Congress good or excellent ratings has fallen to single digits.&#8221; (link) A mere 9 percent of the American people think the Democrat-controlled Legislative Branch of our Federal government is doing a good job; the other 91 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}