{"id":17865,"date":"2022-12-27T15:21:34","date_gmt":"2022-12-27T20:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=17865"},"modified":"2022-12-27T15:21:34","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T20:21:34","slug":"year-end-thrashing-of-congress-on-chicago-radio-mp3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/27\/year-end-thrashing-of-congress-on-chicago-radio-mp3\/","title":{"rendered":"Year-End Thrashing of Congress on Chicago Radio MP3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-2022-12-27-at-15-19-59-USA-Todays-James-Bovard-offers-some-Comic-relief-on-the-Omnibus-Boondoggles-Chicagos-Morning-Answer-with-Dan-Proft-Amy-Jacobson.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-17868\" src=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-2022-12-27-at-15-19-59-USA-Todays-James-Bovard-offers-some-Comic-relief-on-the-Omnibus-Boondoggles-Chicagos-Morning-Answer-with-Dan-Proft-Amy-Jacobson-800x461.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"461\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-2022-12-27-at-15-19-59-USA-Todays-James-Bovard-offers-some-Comic-relief-on-the-Omnibus-Boondoggles-Chicagos-Morning-Answer-with-Dan-Proft-Amy-Jacobson-800x461.png 800w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-2022-12-27-at-15-19-59-USA-Todays-James-Bovard-offers-some-Comic-relief-on-the-Omnibus-Boondoggles-Chicagos-Morning-Answer-with-Dan-Proft-Amy-Jacobson-1024x590.png 1024w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-2022-12-27-at-15-19-59-USA-Todays-James-Bovard-offers-some-Comic-relief-on-the-Omnibus-Boondoggles-Chicagos-Morning-Answer-with-Dan-Proft-Amy-Jacobson-150x86.png 150w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-2022-12-27-at-15-19-59-USA-Todays-James-Bovard-offers-some-Comic-relief-on-the-Omnibus-Boondoggles-Chicagos-Morning-Answer-with-Dan-Proft-Amy-Jacobson-768x442.png 768w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-2022-12-27-at-15-19-59-USA-Todays-James-Bovard-offers-some-Comic-relief-on-the-Omnibus-Boondoggles-Chicagos-Morning-Answer-with-Dan-Proft-Amy-Jacobson.png 1182w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a>I was on<strong> Chicago&#8217;s Morning Answer<\/strong> radio show this morn to thrash Congress and that durn Omnibus bill.\u00a0 Guest host <strong>Ray Stevens<\/strong> and I had fun target-shooting at the various boondoggles in that bill.\u00a0<span class=\"x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h\" dir=\"auto\"> &#8220;Contempt of Congress&#8221; is a civic duty, not a crime. <\/span>Show was spurred by New York Post piece, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/12\/21\/taxpayers-feel-pain-of-pols-wasteful-rubber-stomp\/\">Taxpayers feel the pain of politicians\u2019 wasteful and absurd $1.7 trillion spending plan.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My voice was raspier than usual because I ran out of coffee (a deficit since remedied).<\/p>\n<p>You can listen to the 13 minute interview by clicking below or by going to<a href=\"https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/chicagos-morning-answer-with-dan-proft-amy-jacobso\/usa-todays-james-bovard-offers-some-comic-relief-o\"> the website<\/a><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-17865-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/USA-Todays-James-Bovard-offers-some-Comic-relief-on-the-Omnibus-Boondoggles.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/USA-Todays-James-Bovard-offers-some-Comic-relief-on-the-Omnibus-Boondoggles.mp3\">https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/USA-Todays-James-Bovard-offers-some-Comic-relief-on-the-Omnibus-Boondoggles.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was on Chicago&#8217;s Morning Answer radio show this morn to thrash Congress and that durn Omnibus bill.\u00a0 Guest host Ray Stevens and I had fun target-shooting at the various boondoggles in that bill.\u00a0 &#8220;Contempt of Congress&#8221; is a civic duty, not a crime. 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Bovard\u2019s writings have been publicly denounced by FBI director Louis Freeh, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, the Postmaster General, and the chiefs of the U.S. International Trade Commission, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, as well as by many congressmen and other malcontents.","sameAs":["http:\/\/www.jimbovard.com","https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jim.bovard","https:\/\/x.com\/jimbovard"],"url":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/author\/admin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17869,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17865\/revisions\/17869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}