{"id":1013,"date":"2008-11-10T22:33:30","date_gmt":"2008-11-11T04:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/austringer.net\/wp\/?p=1013"},"modified":"2008-11-10T22:33:30","modified_gmt":"2008-11-11T04:33:30","slug":"theyre-playing-his-tune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/austringer.net\/wp\/index.php\/2008\/11\/10\/theyre-playing-his-tune\/","title":{"rendered":"They&#8217;re Playing His Tune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an AP <a href=\"http:\/\/elections.foxnews.com\/2008\/11\/10\/georgia-rep-broun-warns-obama-dictatorship\/\">story<\/a>, Georgia Rep. Broun (R) warns that Barack Obama could be dangerous:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nA Republican congressman from Georgia said Monday he fears that President-elect Obama will establish a Gestapo-like security force to impose a Marxist dictatorship. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It may sound a bit crazy and off base, but the thing is, he&#8217;s the one who proposed this national security force,&#8221; Rep. Paul Broun said of Obama in an interview Monday with The Associated Press. &#8220;I&#8217;m just trying to bring attention to the fact that we may &#8212; may not, I hope not &#8212; but we may have a problem with that type of philosophy of radical socialism or Marxism.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Where was Rep. Broun while the Bush administration concentrated power in the executive branch, authorized torture as policy, set up the Department of Homeland Security, introduced us all to &#8220;rendition&#8221;, and generally set about making many of our civil liberties null and void? I don&#8217;t remember getting a peep out of him then. And all that stuff <i>actually happened<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>The tune mentioned in the title for Rep. Paul Broun should be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.songfacts.com\/detail.php?id=675\">obvious<\/a>. Yes, it does sound crazy, Rep. Broun. Full stop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an AP story, Georgia Rep. Broun (R) warns that Barack Obama could be dangerous: A Republican congressman from Georgia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[246,245,247,244],"class_list":["post-1013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-and-politics","tag-crazy-talk","tag-insanity","tag-napoleon-xiv","tag-rep-paul-broun"],"magazineBlocksPostFeaturedMedia":{"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"colormag-highlighted-post":false,"colormag-featured-post-medium":false,"colormag-featured-post-small":false,"colormag-featured-image":false,"colormag-default-news":false,"colormag-featured-image-large":false},"magazineBlocksPostAuthor":{"name":"Wesley R. Elsberry","avatar":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0397e612e6e0615428fba05fe25422d5920a74e203aa8a035183297dcb4ffe5e?s=96&r=g"},"magazineBlocksPostCommentsNumber":false,"magazineBlocksPostExcerpt":"In an AP story, Georgia Rep. Broun (R) warns that Barack Obama could be dangerous: A Republican congressman from Georgia","magazineBlocksPostCategories":["Law and Politics"],"magazineBlocksPostViewCount":26,"magazineBlocksPostReadTime":1,"magazine_blocks_featured_image_url":{"full":false,"medium":false,"thumbnail":false},"magazine_blocks_author":{"display_name":"Wesley R. Elsberry","author_link":"https:\/\/austringer.net\/wp\/index.php\/author\/austringer\/"},"magazine_blocks_comment":16,"magazine_blocks_author_image":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0397e612e6e0615428fba05fe25422d5920a74e203aa8a035183297dcb4ffe5e?s=96&r=g","magazine_blocks_category":"<a href=\"#\" class=\"category-link category-link-9\">Law and Politics<\/a>","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/austringer.net\/wp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/austringer.net\/wp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/austringer.net\/wp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austringer.net\/wp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austringer.net\/wp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/austringer.net\/wp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/austringer.net\/wp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austringer.net\/wp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austringer.net\/wp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}