{"id":9124,"date":"2014-03-29T16:52:59","date_gmt":"2014-03-29T16:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=9124"},"modified":"2014-03-29T16:52:59","modified_gmt":"2014-03-29T16:52:59","slug":"dana-rohrabacher-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/dana-rohrabacher-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana Rohrabacher, Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Pussy-Riot-in-Kiev.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Pussy-Riot-in-Kiev.png\" alt=\"Pussy Riot in Kiev\" width=\"532\" height=\"356\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Pussy-Riot-in-Kiev.png 532w, https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Pussy-Riot-in-Kiev-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 532px) 100vw, 532px\" \/><\/a>Dana Rohrabacher, Republican congressman and scourge of Pussy Riot, is at it again.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/03\/29\/us\/politics\/kremlin-finds-a-defender-in-congress.html?smid=tw-share&#038;_r=0\">The New York Times<\/a><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2026Then came Russia\u2019s takeover of Crimea, and Mr. Rohrabacher had to draw the line \u2014 in favor of Mr. Putin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere have been dramatic reforms in Russia that are not being recognized by my colleagues\u2026The churches are full. There are opposition papers being distributed on every newsstand in Russia. You\u2019ve got people demonstrating in the parks. You\u2019ve got a much different Russia than it was under Communism, but you\u2019ve got a lot of people who still can\u2019t get over that Communism has fallen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What about Pussy Riot, the Russian protest group? Its members were jailed for criticizing Mr. Putin, released, then publicly flogged when they showed up at the Winter Olympics in Sochi.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, I don\u2019t think that happens often,\u201d Mr. Rohrabacher said with a shrug. \u201cThere are lots of people demonstrating in the streets of Russia who are perfectly free to do so.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Don\u2019t get me wrong, Russia has changed immensely (and generally for the better) since the fall of the Soviet Union, but there is a middle ground between accepting that the old Cold War certainties no longer apply on the one hand, and a starry-eyed enthusiasm for the emerging new Russia on the other, but that\u2019s not where Dana Rohrabacher stands. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dana Rohrabacher, Republican congressman and scourge of Pussy Riot, is at it again. The New York Times: \u2026Then came Russia\u2019s takeover of Crimea, and Mr. Rohrabacher had to draw the line \u2014 in favor of Mr. Putin. \u201cThere have been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/dana-rohrabacher-again\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[1066,946,559,957,781],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9124"}],"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\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9126,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9124\/revisions\/9126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}