{"id":4634,"date":"2011-01-09T21:38:22","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T04:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=4634"},"modified":"2011-01-09T21:38:22","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T04:38:22","slug":"reading-matt-taibbis-excellent-the-crying-shame-of-john-boehner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2011\/01\/09\/reading-matt-taibbis-excellent-the-crying-shame-of-john-boehner\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Matt Taibbi&#8217;s excellent &#8220;The Crying Shame of John Boehner&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Matt Taibbi&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/news\/matt-taibbi-the-crying-shame-of-john-boehner-20110105?page=4\">tour de force portrait<\/a> of John Boehner as a shill for highest bidder:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;He cries sometimes when we&#8217;re having a debate on bills,&#8221; grumbled Nancy Pelosi. &#8220;If I cry, it&#8217;s about the personal loss of a friend or something like that. But when it comes to politics \u2014 no, I don&#8217;t cry.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Perhaps this scene resonated with me especially since we just watched, again, the still excellent movie &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/A_Taxing_Woman\">A Taxing Woman<\/a>.&#8221; It too features a woman who is a pragmatic enforcer of civil duty and at least one man who is a histrionic scoundrel planted by moneyed interests to plunder the state (or at least, aid and abet the plunderers).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Matt Taibbi&#8217;s tour de force portrait of John Boehner as a shill for highest bidder: &#8220;He cries sometimes when we&#8217;re having a debate on bills,&#8221; grumbled Nancy Pelosi. &#8220;If I cry, it&#8217;s about the personal loss of a friend or something like that. But when it comes to politics \u2014 no, I don&#8217;t cry.&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4634"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}