{"id":402,"date":"2008-10-21T18:04:44","date_gmt":"2008-10-21T22:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2008\/10\/21\/barney-frank-strikes-again\/"},"modified":"2008-10-21T18:04:44","modified_gmt":"2008-10-21T22:04:44","slug":"barney-frank-strikes-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2008\/10\/21\/barney-frank-strikes-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Barney Frank Strikes Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>House Republicans want an investigation as to why Democrats haven&#8217;t investigated Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.&nbsp; You gotta love <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/thecrypt\/1008\/Frank_taunts_GOP_on_Fannie_and_Freddie.html?showall\">Rep. Barney Frank&#8217;s reply<\/a>, proving again that with his sense of humor, he can be one of the most effective Democratic spokesmen on the economy or any other subject.&nbsp; Humor is effective in political discourse, a fact I wish more Democrats would learn.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIn an unusual event, even by this year\u2019s standards, House Republicans appear to be demanding a criminal investigation of their failure to legislate,\u201d said Frank in a statement. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Republican demand that their legislative record of non-action be investigated appears to be the political equivalent of the note left to the police by serial offenders: stop me before I do not legislate again.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Republicans want an investigation as to why Democrats haven&#8217;t investigated Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.&nbsp; You gotta love Rep. Barney Frank&#8217;s reply, proving again that with his sense of humor, he can be one of the most effective Democratic spokesmen on the economy or any other subject.&nbsp; Humor is effective in political discourse, a&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2008\/10\/21\/barney-frank-strikes-again\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}