{"id":2405,"date":"2016-03-17T06:32:28","date_gmt":"2016-03-17T11:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/?p=2405"},"modified":"2016-03-17T07:57:53","modified_gmt":"2016-03-17T12:57:53","slug":"snyder-testifies-before-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=2405","title":{"rendered":"Snyder Testifies Before Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/?attachment_id=2406\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2406\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2406 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/JPA026.jpg\" alt=\"Snyder Testifies Before Congress\" width=\"560\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/JPA026.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/JPA026-300x229.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gdata.com\/?art=\/2016\/03\/JPA026.jpg&amp;name=Snyder Testifies Before Congress.....\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/buy.png\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Ours is a system of checks and balances. And one of the biggest checks is getting yelled at. Nobody likes to be yelled at, and that\u2019s exactly what getting called to testify before congress is. Some will say, \u201cI look forward to the opportunity.\u201d That\u2019s bullcrap. You may get to give your statement. You may get to defend your actions. But at some point, you are going to get yelled at \u2014 your name in big block, highly readable letters right in front of you as that soundbite gets played over and over. And whether the legislators wagging their fingers at you are sincerely passionate or bloviating only to hear themselves speak, it doesn\u2019t matter. You and your super-sized politician, business mogul or (in the olden days) union boss ego have to sit there and take it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I\u2019m not sure how things will go for Governor Snyder today. I do think he got a lucky draw in that today is St Patrick\u2019s Day and the first big day of the NCAA Men\u2019s Basketball tournament, which might suck a good deal of the public attention oxygen out of the air. I suspect it will get partisan with Democrats tearing into Snyder while Republicans try to nail the EPA to the wall. The cartoon addresses my feeling about that. I just hope some good comes from it for the people of Flint and that the powerful take note to consider more carefully the consequences of their future actions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ours is a system of checks and balances. And one of the biggest checks is getting yelled at. Nobody likes to be yelled at, and that\u2019s exactly what getting called to testify before congress is. Some will say, \u201cI look forward to the opportunity.\u201d That\u2019s bullcrap. You may get to give your statement. You may [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial-cartoon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2405"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2410,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405\/revisions\/2410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}