{"id":177836,"date":"2019-05-27T20:14:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T01:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/05\/27\/todays-must-read\/"},"modified":"2019-05-27T20:14:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T01:14:00","slug":"todays-must-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/05\/27\/todays-must-read\/","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s Must Read"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/WTz8S.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/WTz8S.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><i>Philadelphia Enquirer<\/i> columnist Will Bunch has what I believe to be the definitive word on what the Democratic Party should be doing in the age of Trump.<\/p>\n<p>His thesis is pretty straighforward, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.philly.com\/opinion\/commentary\/trump-nancy-pelosi-impeachment-democrats-bullied-20190526.html\">the Democrats need to stop being cowards<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The timidity of Democrats in response to Trump\u2019s take-no-prisoners is  disappointing, even after watching decades of battered-dog politics from  the center-left. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.philly.com\/opinion\/house-judiciary-committee-impeachment-probe-people-president-trump-jerrold-nadler-20190305.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The slow-motion House Democratic strategy<\/a> of finally issuing some subpoenas after several months in power, then  watching them get ignored and finally tied up in court as the clock  ticks toward the 2020 election appears hopeless in the face of all-out  Roy Cohn-ism. And yet the Democrats are politically terrified of using  the only power that matches Trump\u2019s tactics \u2013 an impeachment inquiry,  and the expanded powers that flow from that.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the rest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia Enquirer columnist Will Bunch has what I believe to be the definitive word on what the Democratic Party should be doing in the age of Trump. His thesis is pretty straighforward, the Democrats need to stop being cowards: \u2026\u2026\u2026The timidity of Democrats in response to Trump\u2019s take-no-prisoners is disappointing, even after watching decades of &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":[464,560,374,454],"class_list":["post-177836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-good-writing","tag-impeach","tag-politics","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177836"}],"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=177836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}