{"id":3154,"date":"2018-12-07T09:16:09","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T14:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3154"},"modified":"2018-12-07T09:16:09","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T14:16:09","slug":"a-christmas-carol-starring-michigan-senate-majority-leader-arlan-meekhof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3154","title":{"rendered":"A Christmas Carol \u2014 Starring Michigan Senate Majority Leader Arlan Meekhof"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?attachment_id=3155\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3155\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3155\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/JPA166.jpg\" alt=\"A Christmas Carol \u2014 Starring Michigan Senate Majority Leader Arlan Meekhof\" width=\"560\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/JPA166.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/JPA166-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gdata.com\/?art=\/2018\/12\/JPA166.jpg&amp;name=A Christmas Carol \u2014 Starring Michigan Senate Majority Leader Arlan Meekhof...\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/buy.png\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was hard not to notice the stark contrast this week between events celebrating the late President George H.W. Bush&#8217;s life and the shameless actions of the Michigan (and Wisconsin) lame duck legislatures.<\/p>\n<p>Bush Themes: Civility, democracy, respect for the office, doing what&#8217;s right, sacrifice, generosity, graciousness, honor, duty, trust the system, serve the people, country first.<\/p>\n<p>Michigan Legislature Themes: Grab and cling to power, the end justifies the means, the people have spoken (but I know better), duplicity, greed, game the system, serve the special interests, political party first.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s as if a Dickensian story was being played out live in front of all of us, and the likes of Senate Majority Leader Arlan Meekhof completely missed the point. Maybe a visit from the Ghost of Christmas Future would save them. Or maybe they&#8217;re the Jacob Marley&#8217;s who will wear the chains they are forging in life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was hard not to notice the stark contrast this week between events celebrating the late President George H.W. Bush&#8217;s life and the shameless actions of the Michigan (and Wisconsin) lame duck legislatures. Bush Themes: Civility, democracy, respect for the office, doing what&#8217;s right, sacrifice, generosity, graciousness, honor, duty, trust the system, serve the people, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,10,13,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-andrewheller-com","category-editorial-cartoon","category-michiganpress-org","category-michiganradio-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3154","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=3154"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3157,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3154\/revisions\/3157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}