{"id":5184,"date":"2010-12-17T23:16:54","date_gmt":"2010-12-17T23:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=5184"},"modified":"2010-12-18T09:04:06","modified_gmt":"2010-12-18T09:04:06","slug":"a-victory-for-the-republic-and-not-the-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/a-victory-for-the-republic-and-not-the-party\/","title":{"rendered":"A victory for the republic, and not the party?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I worry obviously of the inability of the American public and political class to <a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/2010\/12\/13\/america-the-end\/\">face up to our fiscal situation<\/a>. But, I can <a href=\"http:\/\/dyn.politico.com\/printstory.cfm?uuid=F2380C08-E43C-D544-4CEED6153E79C775\">respect this attitude<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) \u2014 who recently claimed his goal was to deny Obama a second term \u2014 reportedly reacted with disgust when he read Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer\u2019s recent suggestion that he oppose the package because it would lower unemployment \u201cand easily be the difference between victory and defeat in 2012.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Said one person close to McConnell: \u201cWe\u2019re not going to bet against the economy. If it helps Obama, so be it. We\u2019ll do it. Who gives a s&#8211;t?\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think intransigent partisanship is too often dismissed. It may be  a sign of a healthy political debate. But, at the end of the day politics is politics. It is not the ends, it is the means.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I worry obviously of the inability of the American public and political class to face up to our fiscal situation. But, I can respect this attitude: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) \u2014 who recently claimed his goal was to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/a-victory-for-the-republic-and-not-the-party\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5184"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5184"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5189,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5184\/revisions\/5189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}