{"id":1380,"date":"2006-10-24T19:42:40","date_gmt":"2006-10-24T19:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1380"},"modified":"2006-10-24T19:42:40","modified_gmt":"2006-10-24T19:42:40","slug":"going_down_figh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1380","title":{"rendered":"Going Down Fighting"},"content":{"rendered":"

The GOP seems to be testing a new strategy in a last-ditch effort to keep the reins of power from slipping out of their fingers. The strategy: gimp bullying. First, they go after Michael J. Fox. But apparently not satisfied with making derogatory remarks on right-leaning message boards, they’ve decided to make the attacks more personal. After a debate between Wyoming congressional candidates, the Republican incumbent, Barbara Cubin, threatened to slap the Libertarian candidate<\/a>, who happens to use a wheelchair. The threat came following the Libertarian’s criticism of Cubin for accepting donations from a PAC associated with disgraced House leader Tom DeLay. The only thing that apparently prevented Cubin from following through on her threat was the fact her opponent uses a wheelchair. <\/p>\n

How magnanimous of her. And how uncharacteristic for a Republican to walk away from a fight rigged in her favor. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The GOP seems to be testing a new strategy in a last-ditch effort to keep the reins of power from slipping out of their fingers. The strategy: gimp bullying. First, they go after Michael J. Fox. But apparently not satisfied with making derogatory remarks on right-leaning message boards, they’ve decided to make the attacks more […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-mg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}