{"id":137501,"date":"2018-12-29T00:21:20","date_gmt":"2018-12-29T07:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/12\/29\/dishonest-to-the-point-of-pathology.html"},"modified":"2019-01-01T17:51:01","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T00:51:01","slug":"dishonest-to-the-point-of-pathology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/12\/29\/dishonest-to-the-point-of-pathology.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Dishonest to the point of pathology&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The conservative Denver Post editorial on the current immigration stand-off and government shutdown:<\/p>\n<p><i>&#39;Trump&rsquo;s attempts to blame Democrats for this shutdown are laughable and dishonest to the point of pathology.&#39;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Not that I expect Trump (or the Senate GOP) to respond any time soon to even conservative sentiment from the trenches.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2018\/12\/28\/shutdown-driven-by-donald-trump-lies-delusion\/'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/ntLcs717g0IosHHbS-3mBokJO1ts7VwYxR6Brmh42RY5EfhTON4OWKnoywFPTV9ZqTPhpHxlxeLUKoZxbym5ucz1wOcLEP2u5l3F9eqQdU46wP2TDKWNn0qH8dexjTpa7g5xcjHTwQ=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2018\/12\/28\/shutdown-driven-by-donald-trump-lies-delusion\/'>Editorial: This shutdown is driven by Trump&rsquo;s lies, delusion and erratic demands<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nPresident Donald Trump&rsquo;s delusion and pathological lies are once again impairing his ability to lead this great country.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/HgQjpXmykt2'>Original Post<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The conservative Denver Post editorial on the current immigration stand-off and government shutdown: &#39;Trump&rsquo;s attempts to blame Democrats for this shutdown are laughable and dishonest to the point of pathology.&#39; Not that I expect Trump (or the Senate GOP) to respond any time soon to even conservative sentiment from the trenches. Editorial: This shutdown is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/12\/29\/dishonest-to-the-point-of-pathology.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;Dishonest to the point of pathology&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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":[106,376,1071],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-taxing-spending","category-trump"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":135106,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/20\/bailout-not-bailout.html","url_meta":{"origin":137501,"position":0},"title":"When is a &#8220;bailout&#8221; not a bailout?","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 20-Oct-17 8:23am","format":false,"excerpt":"It's demonstrable that arguing Donald Trump's policy proclamations are incoherent at best, dishonest at worse, is a futile gesture, as neither Trump nor his most rabid supporters care. 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