{"id":11594,"date":"2010-09-28T11:45:42","date_gmt":"2010-09-28T18:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slowpokecomics.com\/blog\/?p=233"},"modified":"2010-09-28T11:45:42","modified_gmt":"2010-09-28T18:45:42","slug":"this-week%e2%80%99s-cartoon-%e2%80%9cdon%e2%80%99t-ask-don%e2%80%99t-tell-in-the-senate%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=11594","title":{"rendered":"This Week\u2019s Cartoon: \u201cDon\u2019t Ask Don\u2019t Tell in the Senate\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slowpokecomics.com\/strips\/DADT.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Don't Ask Don't Tell in the Senate\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slowpokecomics.com\/strips\/DADT.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a>In an unsurprising burst of ineffectiveness, the Senate failed to break a conservative filibuster against ending the ban on gays in the military. The Senator in the last panel is loosely modeled on Republican Susan Collins of Maine, who provided the death blow. Collins said she supported a repeal of &#8220;Don&#8217;t Ask Don&#8217;t Tell,&#8221; but didn&#8217;t like the way the Dems were going about it. As in, they were actually trying to pass something. We all know that is forbidden, of course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an unsurprising burst of ineffectiveness, the Senate failed to break a conservative filibuster against ending the ban on gays in the military. The Senator in the last panel is loosely modeled on Republican Susan Collins of Maine, who provided the death blow. Collins said she supported a repeal of &#8220;Don&#8217;t Ask Don&#8217;t Tell,&#8221; but [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=11594\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated-feeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}