{"id":1916,"date":"2009-03-22T00:23:49","date_gmt":"2009-03-22T05:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/65.175.102.14\/?p=1916"},"modified":"2013-06-14T13:49:11","modified_gmt":"2013-06-14T18:49:11","slug":"earl-pomeroy-dishonest-then-dishonest-now-or-both","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=1916","title":{"rendered":"Earl Pomeroy: dishonest then, dishonest now, or both?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bismarck-mandan.com\/images\/july4th2007-19.jpg\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center><br \/>\nEarl &#8220;the Pearl&#8221; Pomeroy decided grandstanding would be good once again, vehemently shouting that the people have said, &#8220;hell no, and give us our money back!&#8221; in response to the bonuses given to AIG employees, bonuses which were contractually owed to those employees. Like many of this nation&#8217;s worthless congressmen, he acts as though he&#8217;s an innocent bystander in this whole mess, yet Congress is the body responsible. You can see the video of this hypocritcal grandstanding below:<\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/o2G6sqsK-Qs&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"425\" height=\"344\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/o2G6sqsK-Qs&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/center>But it gets better: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kxmc.com\/t\/earl-pomeroy\/334301.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Pomeroy told KX News that he&#8217;d read the stimulus bill cover to cover.<\/a> If that&#8217;s so, then how did he miss the fact that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.portfolio.com\/news-markets\/top-5\/2008\/06\/12\/Countrywide-Loan-Scandal\" target=\"_blank\">Kent Conrad&#8217;s co-conspirator<\/a> put an amendment into the bill to <a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/5173647\/meet-chris-dodd-the-senator-from-aig\" target=\"_blank\">protect these bonuses<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230;when was Pomeroy more dishonest: when he said he&#8217;d read the stimulus bill, or when he summoned up his burst of outrage on the floor of the House to put on a show for the folks back home?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earl &#8220;the Pearl&#8221; Pomeroy decided grandstanding would be good once again, vehemently shouting that the people have said, &#8220;hell no, and give us our money back!&#8221; in response to the bonuses given to AIG employees, bonuses which were contractually owed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=1916\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1917,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916\/revisions\/1917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}