{"id":2990,"date":"2010-04-14T01:07:06","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T05:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/?p=2990"},"modified":"2010-04-14T01:07:06","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T05:07:06","slug":"is-the-tea-party-having-an-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/2010\/04\/14\/is-the-tea-party-having-an-impact\/","title":{"rendered":"Is The Tea Party Having An Impact?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steny Hoyer admitted Tuesday that the protests and rallies by Tea Party activists across the<br \/>\ncountry are having an impact on lawmaker&#8217;s decisions about running for another term.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/capital-living\/in-the-know\/90855-im-a-politician-we-lie-admits-rep-hoyer\">He also admitted that as a politician he lies.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As more proof of the influence the people are having, two incumbents in Texas, one who was the oldest serving, were defeated by more conservative candidates.<\/p>\n<p>And the amazing thing? One was a Republican.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sharedcontent\/APStories\/stories\/D9F2JQAG0.html\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steny Hoyer admitted Tuesday that the protests and rallies by Tea Party activists across the country are having an impact on lawmaker&#8217;s decisions about running for another term. He also admitted that as a politician he lies. As more proof of the influence the people are having, two incumbents in Texas, one who was the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2991,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2990\/revisions\/2991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}