{"id":176329,"date":"2020-07-11T20:07:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-12T01:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/07\/11\/stating-the-obvious-3\/"},"modified":"2020-07-11T20:07:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-12T01:07:00","slug":"stating-the-obvious-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/07\/11\/stating-the-obvious-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Stating the Obvious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Notwithstanding her fund raising prowess, and her ability to manage her caucus, <a href=\"https:\/\/prospect.org\/culture\/books\/nancy-pelosi-a-leader-without-leading\/\">Nancy Pelosi has neither the vision nor inclination to translate her abilities into meaningful policy<\/a>. (The link is a must-read review of a biography of the Speaker of the House.&nbsp; It&#8217;s also a good read,<\/p>\n<p>Simply put, when the Democrats have power, they need more than to clap sarcastically.<\/p>\n<p>If the Democratic Party is to succeed in the long term, policy, the Democratic Party establishment (There is no Democratic Party establishment) will have to stand for real policy.<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi&#8217;s devotion to hack careerism is a detriment to the party and to the nation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Notwithstanding her fund raising prowess, and her ability to manage her caucus, Nancy Pelosi has neither the vision nor inclination to translate her abilities into meaningful policy. (The link is a must-read review of a biography of the Speaker of the House.&nbsp; It&#8217;s also a good read, Simply put, when the Democrats have power, they &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[447,504,374],"class_list":["post-176329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-congress","tag-philosophy","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176329"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}