{"id":15962,"date":"2013-01-02T13:21:19","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T19:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=15962"},"modified":"2013-01-02T13:21:19","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T19:21:19","slug":"lamar-smith-among-four-texas-congressmen-who-voted-for-massive-tax-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=15962","title":{"rendered":"Lamar Smith Among Four Texas Congressmen Who Voted for Massive Tax Hike"},"content":{"rendered":"

In addition to both Texas Senators (John Cornyn, who should have known better, and the retiring Kay Baily Hutchison, who came in like a lion and is going out like a RINO; thank God Ted Cruz is replacing her), four Republican Texas congressmen<\/a> voted for the “Fiscal Cliff” tax hike deal:<\/p>\n

  • Pete Sessions\n
  • Lamar Smith\n
  • Mac Thornberry\n
  • Kevin Brady\n<\/li>\n

    All should have known better than to vote for a bill that contained $41 dollars in new taxes for every $1 in spending cuts<\/a>, but the name Lamar Smith certainly sticks out thanks to such previous hits as “Hi, I’m a SOPA\/PIPA Recording Industry Whore.”<\/a> It’s no surprise, given the bill includes big tax breaks for Hollywood<\/a>. I guess Smith is one of those politicians that stays<\/i> bought. <\/p>\n

    All should expect primary challenges. <\/p>\n

    I’m happy to say that my own Representative, John Carter, voted against the bill<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    I haven’t had time to read the entire bill<\/a> yet, so I can’t tell you whether it’s merely bad or actively horrific…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    In addition to both Texas Senators (John Cornyn, who should have known better, and the retiring Kay Baily Hutchison, who came in like a lion and is going out like a RINO; thank God Ted Cruz is replacing her), four Republican Texas congressmen voted for the “Fiscal Cliff” tax hike deal: Pete Sessions Lamar Smith […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":30,"footnotes":""},"categories":[422,18,12],"tags":[2879,1823,1363,228,1263,201,1825,1450,1524,1824,14,2861],"class_list":["post-15962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-republicans","category-texas","tag-budget","tag-fiscal-cliff","tag-hollywood","tag-john-carter","tag-john-cornyn","tag-kay-bailey-hutchison","tag-kevin-brady","tag-lamar-smith","tag-mac-thornberry","tag-pete-sessions","tag-taxes","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15962"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15971,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15962\/revisions\/15971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}