{"id":3085,"date":"2004-01-19T12:39:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-19T17:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=3085"},"modified":"2020-08-29T11:04:56","modified_gmt":"2020-08-29T15:04:56","slug":"from-truemajority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=3085","title":{"rendered":"From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.truemajority.org\">TrueMajority<\/a>."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leave No President Behind<\/p>\n<p>Grade the State of the Union Address,<br \/>\nThen Send the President His Report Card<\/p>\n<p>It started off as a good idea. The constitution requires the President    &#8220;from time to time give to the Congress information of the state of the    union.&#8221; Unfortunately, the State of the Union address has become an annual    spectacle filled with spin and distortion punctuated by thunderous applause    from the President&#8217;s people. Somehow the real &#8220;state of the union&#8221;    never really gets discussed, not even &#8220;from time to time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Maybe the problem is that Presidents don&#8217;t know what we think about these speeches.    Maybe all they hear is the applause and raves from their staff and donors so    they think they&#8217;ve done a good job.<\/p>\n<p>This year we want to change that. We&#8217;ve created a report card for you to use    to grade the President&#8217;s performance. He says he likes testing and accountability,    so he should appreciate this. It&#8217;s easy, just print out this page and give him    a grade from A to F for each section while you watch his speech. When you&#8217;re    done, share his test results with him by just dropping it in the mail to the    White House (address at the bottom).<\/p>\n<p>Preparing for the State of the Union,<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Greenblatt<br \/>\nHead Geek, TrueMajority.org<\/p>\n<p>P.S. For a nicer printout you can get a PDF version here:<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/action.truemajority.org\/ctt.asp?u=399787&#038;l=272<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leave No President Behind Grade the State of the Union Address, Then Send the President His Report Card It started off as a good idea. The constitution requires the President &#8220;from time to time give to the Congress information of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=3085\">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":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[34,42],"class_list":["post-3085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-livejournal","tag-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paQnES-NL","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6019,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3085\/revisions\/6019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}