{"id":189482,"date":"2010-03-21T22:15:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T03:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/03\/21\/eugene-robinson-is-wrong\/"},"modified":"2010-03-21T22:15:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T03:15:00","slug":"eugene-robinson-is-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/03\/21\/eugene-robinson-is-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Eugene Robinson Is Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He takes the general case, and makes it too specific when he says, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/03\/18\/AR2010031803044.html?nav=rss_opinion\/columns\">Democrats discover the benefits of taking a stand <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">on health reform<\/span><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The reality is that American voters favor audacity, <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">even when the policies are things that they do not support<\/span>, one need only look at Reagan and Bush, who achieved their popular support <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">despite<\/span> pushing policies that the American public generally opposed.<\/p>\n<p>The route to electoral success is to tell the Republicans to go Cheney themselves, and then include things in the bill that <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">jam them up<\/span> with the voters when election time rolls around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He takes the general case, and makes it too specific when he says, &#8220;Democrats discover the benefits of taking a stand on health reform. The reality is that American voters favor audacity, even when the policies are things that they do not support, one need only look at Reagan and Bush, who achieved their popular &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1000,1046,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-elections","category-healthcare","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189482"}],"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=189482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}