{"id":188146,"date":"2010-12-01T23:26:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-02T04:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/12\/01\/why-reaching-across-the-aisle-is-a-stupid-idea\/"},"modified":"2010-12-01T23:26:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-02T04:26:00","slug":"why-reaching-across-the-aisle-is-a-stupid-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/12\/01\/why-reaching-across-the-aisle-is-a-stupid-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Reaching Across the Aisle is a Stupid Idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arizona Republican John Kyle has announced that <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/131413-kyl-tax-deal-needs-to-get-done-by-monday-to-pass-start-in-lame-duck\">he will not allow a vote on the START treaty unless the Democrats capitulate on tax cuts for people making more than $\u00bc million a year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I am not disappointed by Kyle, I expect this behavior from post-Reagan Republicans.  What does disappoint me is the behavior of Barack Obama, who continues to think that he can dazzle them with his awesomeness and reach across the aisle.<\/p>\n<p>As my brother notes, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/theinnerwalls.blogspot.com\/2010\/11\/unfitness-to-govern.html\">Since being &#8216;nice&#8217; doesn&#8217;t work, a sane course might include not being nice&#8230;.<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arizona Republican John Kyle has announced that he will not allow a vote on the START treaty unless the Democrats capitulate on tax cuts for people making more than $\u00bc million a year. I am not disappointed by Kyle, I expect this behavior from post-Reagan Republicans. What does disappoint me is the behavior of Barack &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1038,998,969,964,1020,982,983],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-congress","category-evil","category-foreign-relations","category-legislation","category-stupid","category-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188146"}],"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=188146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}