{"id":221,"date":"2012-11-19T09:18:20","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T16:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/?p=221"},"modified":"2012-11-19T09:18:20","modified_gmt":"2012-11-19T16:18:20","slug":"arizona-proud-home-of-the-anti-porkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/?p=221","title":{"rendered":"Flake and McCain, the anti-porkers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_222\" style=\"width: 126px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/auslander.online\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Flake.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-222\" class=\"size-full wp-image-222\" title=\"Flake\" src=\"https:\/\/auslander.online\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Flake.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"116\" height=\"174\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-222\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeff Flake<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_223\" style=\"width: 215px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/auslander.online\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/McCain.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-223\" class=\"size-full wp-image-223\" title=\"McCain\" src=\"https:\/\/auslander.online\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/McCain.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"176\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-223\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John McCain<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Arizona should be bursting with pride.<\/p>\n<p>The state has elected a second U.S. senator who believes he should seek NO MONEY for the state. Jeff Flake, Republican senator-elect, campaigned long and loud against earmarks, those little do-hickeys at the end of bills that provide federal money for pet projects championed by state delegations in the House and Senate. To the enlightened right-wing conservative, earmarks and pork are the root of most all evil.<\/p>\n<p>John McCain has made a successful senatorial career by refusing to bring home any manner of bacon<a title=\"\" href=\"#_ftn1\">[*]<\/a>\u00a0to Arizona. He is the longest living anti-porker. The right honorable Sen. McCain will tell you: The notion that federal pork provides roads and other infrastructure, jobs and lights a fire under a state economy is just hogwash, a lame excuse to hide the fact that it\u2019s just money down a rat hole.<\/p>\n<p>Let all that gravy and cash go elsewhere. Arizona&#8217;s senators stand four-square against federal money no matter how many jobs it creates, no matter how much infrastructure it builds,no matter how much prosperity it might generate. It&#8217;s rathole money as far as Flake and McCain are concerned.<\/p>\n<p>Now we have two anti-porking senators.\u00a0McCain is proud. Arizona is proud.\u00a0And really, really poor.<\/p>\n<div><br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<hr align=\"left\" size=\"1\" width=\"33%\" \/>\n<div>\n<p><a title=\"\" href=\"#_ftnref1\">[*]<\/a> Was it bacon or pork that paid for the Central Arizona Project, that engineering feat that created a canal from the Colorado River all the way to Tucson?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Arizona should be bursting with pride. The state has elected a second U.S. senator who believes he should seek NO MONEY for the state. Jeff Flake, Republican senator-elect, campaigned long and loud against earmarks, those little do-hickeys at the end of bills that provide federal money for pet projects championed by state delegations in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[35,36,37,39],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-arizona-u-s-senators","tag-jeff-flake","tag-john-mccain","tag-pork-barrel-politics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}