{"id":15957,"date":"2018-03-09T19:15:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-10T00:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=15957"},"modified":"2018-03-09T19:20:50","modified_gmt":"2018-03-10T00:20:50","slug":"paralysis-in-congress-as-republicans-and-democrats-dither-over-gun-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2018\/03\/paralysis-in-congress-as-republicans-and-democrats-dither-over-gun-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Paralysis in Congress as Republicans and Democrats dither over gun control"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dithering? That’s what we’re calling it now, when our elected representatives ignore the will of the electorate and choose to do nothing?
\nWell I, for one, am feeling overdithered. Dithered to death. They’ve really outdithered themselves this time.<\/p>\n

I’m #DoneWithDithering. Do something, assholes.<\/p>\n

The Article ‘Paralysis in Congress as Republicans and Democrats dither over gun control’ originally appeared on https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/mar\/09\/congress-republicans-democrats-gun-control<\/a><\/p>\n

Jamie’s comments are his own.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dithering? That’s what we’re calling it now, when our elected representatives ignore the will of the electorate and choose to do nothing? Well I, for one, am feeling overdithered. Dithered to death. They’ve really outdithered themselves this time. I’m #DoneWithDithering. Do something, assholes. The Article ‘Paralysis in Congress as Republicans and Democrats dither over gun […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[14,480,456,132,429],"tags":[523,159,33,530,552],"class_list":["post-15957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-facebook","category-jamie-gray","category-news","category-shared-link","tag-blog","tag-facebook","tag-jamie-gray","tag-news","tag-shared"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11805,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2017\/01\/scorecard-for-a-departing-president-assessing-obamas-successes-and-shortcomings\/","url_meta":{"origin":15957,"position":0},"title":"Scorecard For A Departing President: Assessing Obama’s Successes And Shortcomings","date":"January 10, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Let's just say that the pendulum just swung in a hugely opposite direction. 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