And these are only the items that popped into my head over a period of about 15 minutes. It\u2019s hard being a blue person in a red state. The only consolation is that things might be even worse in our once- proudly-blue-state neighbor, now turned fiscal laughingstock\u2014Illinois.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The blood-red Missouri legislature, the state\u2019s once-Democrat-now-Republican Governor, and our party-uber-alles senior Senator continue to make this state a beacon for everything that\u2019s going<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":37363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,202],"tags":[2680,2694,31,120,3047],"yoast_head":"\n