{"id":1296,"date":"2006-07-18T11:13:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-18T17:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=1296"},"modified":"2006-07-18T11:13:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-18T17:13:00","slug":"joe-barton-r-ennis-votes-against-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/joe-barton-r-ennis-votes-against-voters\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Barton, R-Ennis votes against voters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/capitolannex.com\/2006\/07\/14\/the-meaning-of-their-votes-texas-congressional-republicans-must-reap-what-they-have-sown\/\">Joe Barton<\/A>, R-Ennis, and five other GOP congressmen from Texas voted against the Voter Rights Act. Capital Annex gives a rundown of what this vote and votes for\/against the ammendments mean:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It should give Republicans no small amout of amusement that Chet Edwards (D-Waco)\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthe Congressman for the President\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s home in Crawford, deemed as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153liberal\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153out of touch\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and unworthy of being the Congressman for the President\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s home congressional district by Republicans\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwas actually in harmony with the President\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s wishes on this\u00e2\u20ac\u201das did every other Democrat from this state.<br \/>\nIt was the Texas Republicans who were against their president, the mainstream, and convention when they cast their \u00e2\u20ac\u0153yes\u00e2\u20ac\u009d votes for those four amendments and when six of their colleagues cast \u00e2\u20ac\u0153no\u00e2\u20ac\u009d votes on final passage.<br \/>\nMark yesterday, July 13, 2006 on your calanders and in your memories: it is the day the Republican Congressmen from Texas lost their credibility and sailed so far out of the mainstream they ended up in the middle of the ocean.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s things like this that make me wonder why I&#8217;m registered as a Republican.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Barton, R-Ennis, and five other GOP congressmen from Texas voted against the Voter Rights Act. Capital Annex gives a rundown of what this vote and votes for\/against the ammendments mean: It should give Republicans no small amout of amusement that Chet Edwards (D-Waco)\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthe Congressman for the President\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s home in Crawford, deemed as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153liberal\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/joe-barton-r-ennis-votes-against-voters\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Joe Barton, R-Ennis votes against voters<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-kU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}