{"id":134811,"date":"2017-09-21T14:28:16","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T20:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=134811"},"modified":"2017-09-21T18:27:39","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T00:27:39","slug":"untrustworthy-small-things-will-untrustworthy-great-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/09\/21\/untrustworthy-small-things-will-untrustworthy-great-things.html","title":{"rendered":"Those who are untrustworthy in small things will be untrustworthy in great things"},"content":{"rendered":"

Or, in other words, if you can’t trust Mike Pence to be accurate (or honest) about what Thomas Jefferson said when using a (fake) quote to support his argument, how can you trust anything<\/i> he says?<\/p>\n

Quotation collection is a hobby of mine. Verifying that quote would have taken him or his handlers fifteen seconds on Google. If they had actually been interesting in verifying it.<\/p>\n

So when he goes on to say that (a) state governors will be more responsive to the political desires of their constituents (says a horribly unpopular former governor) than their local US Representative, or (b) oh, yes, of course, Graham-Cassidy will protect all those people with pre-existing conditions from skyrocketing premiums and deductibles and caps, you can be sure he put just as much thought and effort into verifying that’s<\/i> true as well.<\/p>\n


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\nPence uses fake Jefferson quote to dodge critical question about Trumpcare<\/a><\/span>
\nUnable to defend Graham-Cassidy, Pence made stuff up.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Or, in other words, if you can’t trust Mike Pence to be accurate (or honest) about what Thomas Jefferson said when using a (fake) quote to support his argument, how can you trust anything he says? Quotation collection is a hobby of mine. Verifying that quote would have taken him or his handlers fifteen seconds … Continue reading “Those who are untrustworthy in small things will be untrustworthy in great things”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,528,134,358,376,24],"tags":[1171,431,1045],"class_list":["post-134811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-economic-justice","category-health-care","category-poor-citizenship","category-taxing-spending","category-writing-and-language","tag-aca","tag-quotation","tag-repealandreplace"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Mike-Pence.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":133569,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/29\/untrustworthy-in-little-things-untrustworthy-in-big-things.html","url_meta":{"origin":134811,"position":0},"title":"Untrustworthy in little things, untrustworthy in big things","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 29-May-17 1:26pm","format":false,"excerpt":"So Trump (his business organization, but, I assure you, he's always involved when it comes to his image and branding) stole his \"coat of arms\" from the husband of the woman who built Mar-a-Lago, and has slapped it onto any product \/ location he owns that he wants to be\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":133725,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/22\/will-be-untrustworthy-in-great-things.html","url_meta":{"origin":134811,"position":1},"title":""Will be untrustworthy in great things"","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 22-Jun-17 10:21pm","format":false,"excerpt":"There are certainly far greater personal sins than driving your golf cart across the putting green -- but to me this is emblematic of the self-focused, entitled, norm-disregarding, lazy, impulsive, \"it never occurred to me not to do something I wanted\" attitude of Donald Trump. 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