{"id":11438,"date":"2010-03-24T21:42:55","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T21:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/peterfeld-this-cartoon-is-from-1995-when\/"},"modified":"2021-07-20T23:38:27","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T23:38:27","slug":"peterfeld-this-cartoon-is-from-1995-when","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/peterfeld-this-cartoon-is-from-1995-when\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-11438 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/peterfeld-this-cartoon-is-from-1995-when\/attachment\/11439\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/tumblr_kzt0ss7yGF1qz802uo1_250.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/peterfeld.tumblr.com\/post\/470875657\/this-cartoon-is-from-1995-when-republican-speaker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">peterfeld<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>This cartoon is from 1995, when Republican Speaker Newt Gingrich shut down the federal government when he felt snubbed after having to sit in the back of Air Force One. The public did not appreciate the shutdown, and opinion shifted in favor of President Clinton, who was easily reelected in 1996, just two years after his party\u2019s massive defeat in the 1994 midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/24\/senate-republicans-block-hearings\" rel=\"noopener\">This item<\/a>, from today, shows the Republicans have learned nothing since then:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For the second consecutive day, Senate Republicans angry over the  health care legislation blocked Senate committees from meeting on  Wednesday, including an Armed Services Committee session that top  officers stationed in Hawaii and Korea had traveled to Washington to  attend.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Showing their pique over the Senate\u2019s plunging ahead with an  expedited process to consider changes in the newly enacted health care  law, Senate Republicans refused to allow panels to meet after 2 p.m.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Under Senate rules, the afternoon schedule requires agreement from  all senators, which is typically given pro forma. But with Republicans  annoyed at being steamrolled by the reconciliation process, that  approval was not granted, much to the unhappiness of Democrats who  contended that Republicans were inconveniencing a lot of people in their  temper tantrum.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe have three commanders testifying this afternoon,\u201d Senator Carl  Levin, Democrat of Michigan and chairman of the Armed Services  Committee, said. \u201cThey\u2019ve been scheduled for a long time. They have come  a long, long distance.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>peterfeld: This cartoon is from 1995, when Republican Speaker Newt Gingrich shut down the federal government when he felt snubbed after having to sit in the back of Air Force One. The public did not appreciate the shutdown, and opinion shifted in favor of President Clinton, who was easily reelected in 1996, just two years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11440,"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11438\/revisions\/11440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}