{"id":3775,"date":"2011-01-31T22:55:52","date_gmt":"2011-02-01T03:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/?p=3775"},"modified":"2011-01-31T22:55:53","modified_gmt":"2011-02-01T03:55:53","slug":"chuck-schumer-we-have-3-branches-of-govt-a-house-a-senate-a-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/31\/chuck-schumer-we-have-3-branches-of-govt-a-house-a-senate-a-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Chuck Schumer: &#8216;We have 3 branches of gov&#8217;t &#8212; A House, a Senate, a President&#8217;&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, just wow:<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/fG0Jpu9geWY\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Idiot.<\/p>\n<p>Umm, Senator Schumer the three branches of Government specified by the Constitution are the Executive, the Legislative and the Judicial not the Senate, House and President, you might want to review Articles 1, 2 and 3 of the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s no wonder we&#8217;re in the mess we&#8217;re in when so many of our elected representatives don&#8217;t seem to have vaguest idea\u00a0 what the Constitution actually says &#8212; or, for that matter, have any respect for the limits it places on the Government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, just wow: Idiot. Umm, Senator Schumer the three branches of Government specified by the Constitution are the Executive, the Legislative and the Judicial not the Senate, House and President, you might want to review Articles 1, 2 and 3 of the Constitution. It&#8217;s no wonder we&#8217;re in the mess we&#8217;re in when so many [&hellip;]<\/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":[468,268],"class_list":{"0":"post-3775","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-politics","7":"tag-chuck-schumer","8":"tag-constitution","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfpI7-YT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4263,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/04\/the-obama-romney-tariff\/","url_meta":{"origin":3775,"position":0},"title":"The Obama-Romney Tariff","author":"Jeff","date":"October 4, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Lord help us... 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