{"id":2764,"date":"2019-07-13T20:02:10","date_gmt":"2019-07-14T00:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=2764"},"modified":"2019-07-13T20:02:10","modified_gmt":"2019-07-14T00:02:10","slug":"important-fish-to-fry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=2764","title":{"rendered":"Important Fish to Fry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/biggerfish\/biggerfish.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"border: 0px none; margin: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/biggerfish\/biggerfish650w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"1080\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>First of all, huge thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KateNocera\" target=\"_blank\">Kate Nocera<\/a><\/strong> at Buzzfeed News for tweeting that inspiring quote from the Speaker.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Pelosi to House Dems this morning: &#8220;You make me the target, but don\u2019t make our blue dogs and our new dems the target in all of this because we have important fish to fry.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kate Nocera (@KateNocera) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KateNocera\/status\/1148982987373109249?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 10, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>So, now, folks&#8230;<\/strong> considering her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2019-06-27\/pelosi-mcconnell-face-off-over-border-funds-as-crisis-deepens\" target=\"_blank\">enabling of fascism,<\/a> her support for an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/eriksherman\/2017\/07\/14\/most-house-democrats-just-voted-for-a-defense-budget-far-bigger-than-trumps\/#5ef500566ea0\" target=\"_blank\">obscene war budget,<\/a> her desperate <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2019\/02\/05\/nancy-pelosi-medicare-for-all\/\" target=\"_blank\">opposition to Medicare For All,<\/a> and her bitter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/magazine\/wp\/2019\/03\/11\/feature\/nancy-pelosi-on-impeaching-president-trump-hes-just-not-worth-it\/\" target=\"_blank\">refusal to hold a criminal Executive to account<\/a> \u2013 a tendency going back to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uSWa4km5hv0\" target=\"_blank\">Bush v2.0<\/a> \u2013 I have to ask myself: who <em>are<\/em> the &#8220;important fish&#8221; that Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats are needing to fry?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, yeah, that&#8217;s right&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>11&#215;17 inch medium-res <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/biggerfish\/biggerfish.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">color .jpg image,<\/a> 1.3mb<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First of all, huge thanks to Kate Nocera at Buzzfeed News for tweeting that inspiring quote from the Speaker. Pelosi to House Dems this morning: &#8220;You make me the target, but don\u2019t make our blue dogs and our new dems the target in all of this because we have important fish to fry.&#8221; \u2014 Kate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[958,7,132,8,762,9],"tags":[994,21,154,142],"class_list":["post-2764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2020-election","category-elections","category-party-animals","category-right-wingnuts","category-trumpism","category-war-and-peace","tag-concentration-camps","tag-healthcare","tag-impeachment","tag-pelosi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2764"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2768,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2764\/revisions\/2768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}