{"id":497,"date":"2013-09-30T18:16:21","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T04:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grumpyseniors.com\/?p=497"},"modified":"2013-09-30T18:16:21","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T04:16:21","slug":"somewhere-someone-is-happy-about-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grumpyseniors.com\/?p=497","title":{"rendered":"Somewhere, someone is happy about this"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here it is.<br \/>\nThe witching hour.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/grumpyseniors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/government-closed.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-499\" alt=\"government-closed\" src=\"http:\/\/grumpyseniors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/government-closed-250x220.png\" width=\"250\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"http:\/\/grumpyseniors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/government-closed-250x220.png 250w, http:\/\/grumpyseniors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/government-closed.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>The stroke of midnight on the East Coast and Congress has turned into a pumpkin.<\/p>\n<p>A rotten one at that.<\/p>\n<p>It makes no difference if you&#8217;re a Democrat, a Republican or a wacky Tea Party nut case, you&#8217;re all wrong.<\/p>\n<p>The Democrats are trying their best to make everyone else look foolish.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s some advice &#8211; it&#8217;s not working.<\/p>\n<p>The Republicans have now voted 40 times to try to stop ObamaCare.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s some advice &#8211; give up.<\/p>\n<p>The Tea Party is willing to destroy damn near everything in its drive to remake the country in its own vision, whatever that is.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s some advice &#8211; go away.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s your chance &#8211; explain why your side is right and the other&#8217;s are wrong.<\/p>\n<p>If you can.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-497\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/grumpyseniors.com\/?p=497&amp;share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-497\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/grumpyseniors.com\/?p=497&amp;share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/grumpyseniors.com\/?p=497&amp;share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email this to a friend\"><span>Email<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here it is. 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