{"id":185481,"date":"2014-11-06T21:37:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-07T02:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/11\/06\/wonkett-nails-it\/"},"modified":"2014-11-06T21:37:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-07T02:37:00","slug":"wonkett-nails-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/11\/06\/wonkett-nails-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Wonkett Nails It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wonkette.com\/565661\/democrats-have-great-exciting-new-idea-being-democrats\"><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-variant: small-caps;\"><b>Democrats Have Great Exciting New Idea: Being Democrats<\/b><\/span><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Here\u2019s an idea that\u2019s so crazy, it just might work! After the thorough ass-kicking the Democratic Party suffered on Election Day, some Democrats are considering the possibility that maybe running \u201cDemocratic\u201d candidates who are embarrassed to be Democrats is not the best way to appeal to the Democratic Party. Crazy, huh? With candidates refusing to support Obamacare, refusing to support Democratic policies, refusing to even say \u201cHell, yes, I voted for Barack Obama because I am a Democrat, DUH,\u201d the new minority is thinking maybe it\u2019s time to get back to being Democrats.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">According to Faiz Shakir, a senior adviser to the soon-to-be-ex Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, the new plan for 2016 is to maybe \u2014 maybe \u2014 run Democratic candidates on a Democratic platform. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Your mouth to God&#8217;s year, Faiz.<\/p>\n<p>Cowardice is bad politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats Have Great Exciting New Idea: Being Democrats: Here\u2019s an idea that\u2019s so crazy, it just might work! After the thorough ass-kicking the Democratic Party suffered on Election Day, some Democrats are considering the possibility that maybe running \u201cDemocratic\u201d candidates who are embarrassed to be Democrats is not the best way to appeal to the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1000,1240,1003,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections","category-integrity","category-philosophy","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185481"}],"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=185481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}