{"id":20345,"date":"2018-09-19T17:20:23","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T22:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=20345"},"modified":"2018-09-19T17:20:23","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T22:20:23","slug":"shocked-shocked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=20345","title":{"rendered":"Shocked — shocked!"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings have hit a snag, Mitch McConnell seems very upset that the Democrats are making things difficult. I am sympathetic, because we all know how deeply McConnell respects a sitting President’s right to select candidates to the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

The image that comes to my mind when I think of the situation is from of one of my favorite movie scenes — that moment in Casablanca<\/i> when Captain Louis Renault utters his most famous line of dialog.<\/p>\n

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You can probably guess what that line of dialog is. It’s amazing how up to date that particular scene feels right about now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings have hit a snag, Mitch McConnell seems very upset that the Democrats are making things difficult. I am sympathetic, because we all know how deeply McConnell respects a sitting President’s right to select candidates to the Supreme Court. The image that comes to my mind when I think of the … Continue reading “Shocked — shocked!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20345"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20345"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20348,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20345\/revisions\/20348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}