{"id":1154,"date":"2008-12-19T17:19:56","date_gmt":"2008-12-19T22:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/?p=1154"},"modified":"2008-12-19T17:20:42","modified_gmt":"2008-12-19T22:20:42","slug":"say-it-aint-so-congress-gives-itself-a-raise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/19\/say-it-aint-so-congress-gives-itself-a-raise\/","title":{"rendered":"Say It Ain’t So: Congress Gives Itself a Raise"},"content":{"rendered":"

Only in Washington… Roughly 2 million Americans have lost their jobs, the economy is a mess and the same idiots in Congress who are whining about CEO compensation and perks give themselves a $4,700 a year pay raise<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Talk about being tone deaf! It’s no wonder why their approval ratings are in single digits<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Only in Washington… Roughly 2 million Americans have lost their jobs, the economy is a mess and the same idiots in Congress who are whining about CEO compensation and perks give themselves a $4,700 a year pay raise. Talk about being tone deaf! It’s no wonder why their approval ratings are in single digits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[160],"class_list":{"0":"post-1154","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-politics","7":"tag-congress","8":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfpI7-iC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2203,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/15\/leon-panetta-angency-briefed-lawmakers-truthfully-in-2002\/","url_meta":{"origin":1154,"position":0},"title":"Leon Panetta: Angency Briefed Lawmakers Truthfully in 2002","author":"Jeff","date":"May 15, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"CIA Director Leon Panetta today released a statement defending his agency from charges that it mislead mmeber of Congress: There is a long tradition in Washington of making political hay out of our business. 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