{"id":24642,"date":"2011-12-18T14:03:06","date_gmt":"2011-12-18T21:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/18\/hugo-chavez-would-be-proud-of-newt.html"},"modified":"2011-12-18T14:34:36","modified_gmt":"2011-12-18T21:34:36","slug":"hugo-chavez-would-be-proud-of-newt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/18\/hugo-chavez-would-be-proud-of-newt.html","title":{"rendered":"Hugo Chavez would be proud of Newt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Granted, he hasn&#39;t said he would send US Marshals to arrest them just for being &quot;activists&quot; (read: &quot;acting in ways I don&#39;t like&quot;), but as part of issuing them subpoenas and dragging them in front of Congressional hearings on their &quot;activism.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>I think the Politburo used to behave that way, too. #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/justice\/2011\/12\/18\/391576\/gingrich-marshal-judges\/'>Newt Gingrich Would Send U.S. Marshals To Arrest \u2018Activist\u2019 Judges<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tContinuing his crusade against the courts, Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich railed against judges \u201cimposing secularism\u201d on the country on this morning\u2019s Face The Nation. Arguing that \u201ca&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Granted, he hasn&#39;t said he would send US Marshals to arrest them just for being &quot;activists&quot; (read: &quot;acting in ways I don&#39;t like&quot;), but as part of issuing them subpoenas and dragging them in front of Congressional hearings on their &quot;activism.&quot; I think the Politburo used to behave that way, too. #ddtb Embedded Link Newt &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/18\/hugo-chavez-would-be-proud-of-newt.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hugo Chavez would be proud of Newt&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,99],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-24642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-elections-2012","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24698,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/20\/yet-another-reason-to-oppose-newt.html","url_meta":{"origin":24642,"position":0},"title":"Yet another reason to oppose Newt","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 20-Dec-11 6:17pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I mean, unless he rejects the support of Wildmon, that is. 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