{"id":1170,"date":"2006-08-01T14:53:21","date_gmt":"2006-08-01T14:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:09:50","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:09:50","slug":"what_color_is_t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1170","title":{"rendered":"What Color Is The Sky On McKinney&#8217;s Planet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I listen to people like Cynthia McKinney I wonder a lot about their attachment to reality; I mean they adapt it so much and so often that someone watching is left wondering if there is a cynical awareness that they are lying, or if somehow they just don&#8217;t see the same objective reality that the rest of us do.<\/p>\n<p>Last night Cynthia McKinney debated Hank Johnson (I&#8217;ll find a link and out it up when I find a video or a transcript).<\/p>\n<p>Among a lot of other amusing statements, this one leapt out: McKinney bragged that political Web site Congress.org rated her first among Georgia House Democrats in the sub-category of legislation, though many of her colleagues had no score.So <a href=\"http:\/\/www.congress.org\/congressorg\/power_rankings\/state.tt?state=GA\" target=\"browser\">let&#8217;s go<\/a> to Congress.org (because that what we do in the blogs, we click through and look).<\/p>\n<p>|Name \t|Rank in State \t|Score \t|Rank in House|<br \/>\n| Rep. Kingston (R-GA-1) |1 |21.38 \t|&#8230;77|<br \/>\n| Rep. Linder (R-GA-7) \t|2 |21.00 \t|&#8230;87|<br \/>\n| Rep. Norwood (R-GA-9) |3 |18.50 \t|&#8230;123|<br \/>\n| Rep. Deal (R-GA-10) \t|4 |14.88 \t|&#8230;209|<br \/>\n| Rep. Bishop (D-GA-2) \t|5 |13.50 \t|&#8230;247|<br \/>\n| Rep. Price (R-GA-6) \t|6 |11.62 \t|&#8230;271|<br \/>\n| Rep. Lewis (D-GA-5) \t|7 |10.89 \t|&#8230;287|<br \/>\n| Rep. Westmoreland (R-GA-8) |8\t|10.37\t|&#8230;296|<br \/>\n| Rep. Gingrey (R-GA-11) \t|9 |9.25 \t|&#8230;325|<br \/>\n| Rep. Scott (D-GA-13) \t|10 \t|7.25\t|&#8230;364|<br \/>\n| Rep. Marshall (D-GA-3) \t|11 |5.25 \t|&#8230;407|<br \/>\n| Rep. McKinney (D-GA-4) \t|12 |5.25 \t|&#8230;408|<br \/>\n| Rep. Barrow (D-GA-12) \t|13 |4.00 \t|&#8230;430|<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the only ranking I can find on the site. So is she flat lying, or just delusional?<\/p>\n<p>And should the people of Atlanta be represented by the 408th most powerful member of the House?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cynthia McKinney misses the truth in a candidate debate. It misses her, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}