{"id":724114,"date":"2010-04-26T15:49:57","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T19:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.campaignforliberty.com\/blog.php?view=34998"},"modified":"2010-04-26T15:49:57","modified_gmt":"2010-04-26T19:49:57","slug":"nobody-thinks-washington-gets-it-except-maybe-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/724114","title":{"rendered":"Nobody Thinks Washington Gets it, Except Maybe Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Gary Howard<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zogby.com\/dailynumber\/dailynumber.cfm?ID=22\" >new Zogby poll<\/a> illustrates the frustration, and wisdom, of the general public when it comes to judging the state of affairs in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>80%<\/strong> That&#8217;s the percentage of likely voters who agree that the people in  Washington, D.C. are out of touch with the rest of the country. Only 19%  disagree and 1% are unsure.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I will take a completely unscientific guess and say of the 19% who disagreed, most were involved with beltway insider business of some sort. I would only hope so.<\/p>\n<p>And then we have this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zogby.com\/news\/X-LFR.pdf\" >other poll from Zogby<\/a> showing that a slight percentage more (84%) of folks are smart enough to know that 3000 page monster bills are bad news anyway you slice.<\/p>\n<p>I am beginning to be more and more enthralled with the whole <a href=\"http:\/\/www.campaignforliberty.com\/blog.php?view=34897\" >random selection of Congress<\/a> idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Gary Howard A new Zogby poll illustrates the frustration, and wisdom, of the general public when it comes to judging the state of affairs in Washington, DC. 80% That&#8217;s the percentage of likely voters who agree that the people in Washington, D.C. are out of touch with the rest of the country. Only 19% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-724114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-32ng","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}