{"id":187076,"date":"2013-06-26T19:55:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T00:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/06\/26\/i-hope-that-this-is-sincere\/"},"modified":"2013-06-26T19:55:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T00:55:00","slug":"i-hope-that-this-is-sincere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/06\/26\/i-hope-that-this-is-sincere\/","title":{"rendered":"I Hope That This is Sincere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It might also just be a realization that it&#8217;s political poison to piss off minorities even more.<\/p>\n<p>But in either case, the fact that <a href=\"http:\/\/livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com\/entry\/eric-cantor-reacts-to-voting-rights-act-ruling?ref=fpb\">Eric Cantor is calling for speedy legislation to fix the Supreme Court&#8217;s ruling against the Voting Rights Act<\/a> is a positive development:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) reacted late Tuesday afternoon to the Supreme Court&#8217;s landmark ruling that overturned a centerpiece of the Voting Rights Act.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">&#8220;My experience with John Lewis in Selma earlier this year was a profound experience that demonstrated the fortitude it took to advance civil rights and ensure equal protection for all,&#8221; Cantor said in a statement provided to TPM. &#8220;I&#8217;m hopeful Congress will put politics aside, as we did on that trip, and find a responsible path forward that ensures that the sacred obligation of voting in this country remains protected.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It should be noted that the proverbial devil is in the details here.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If the teabagger caucus is allowed to get its teeth into this, whatever come out of the house will be deeply ugly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It might also just be a realization that it&#8217;s political poison to piss off minorities even more. But in either case, the fact that Eric Cantor is calling for speedy legislation to fix the Supreme Court&#8217;s ruling against the Voting Rights Act is a positive development: House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) reacted late Tuesday &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[971,998,1000,1020],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-congress","category-elections","category-legislation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187076"}],"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=187076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}