{"id":19377,"date":"2011-04-15T05:14:04","date_gmt":"2011-04-15T11:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=19377"},"modified":"2011-04-15T05:14:04","modified_gmt":"2011-04-15T11:14:04","slug":"here-comes-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=19377","title":{"rendered":"Here Comes 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via the <em>Vail Spot<\/em>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thevailspot.blogspot.com\/2011\/04\/gop-leadership-betrays-base.html\"> the GOP blew it<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/nation.foxnews.com\/budget-battle\/2011\/04\/14\/check-out-who-voted-budget-bill-today\">Here&#8217;s a link<\/a> that shows just who voted for the &#8220;deal&#8221; that screws America.\u00a0 Boehner blew it.\u00a0 He had a chance to do the right thing&#8230;and blinked.\u00a0 I hope that next year, someone will have the courage to give him a real primary challenge.\u00a0 Remember, for anyone to challenge an incumbent takes time and money&#8230;contribute freely to their opponents with both.\u00a0 It&#8217;s the only way to show the leaders of the Republican Party, that We The People meant what we said at the ballot box last year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My mantra on most political things is &#8220;perfect is the enemy of good enough&#8221;. \u00a0And I know politics is about compromise &#8211; especially when you only control one of the three elements for passing legislation.<\/p>\n<p>But with the future of the world&#8217;s financial system at stake, and with the US teetering on the edge of the same cliff Greece and Portugal slid down, it&#8217;s time for some rock-ripped principle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via the Vail Spot,\u00a0 the GOP blew it: Here&#8217;s a link that shows just who voted for the &#8220;deal&#8221; that screws America.\u00a0 Boehner blew it.\u00a0 He had a chance to do the right thing&#8230;and blinked.\u00a0 I hope that next year, someone will have the courage to give him a real primary challenge.\u00a0 Remember, for anyone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19378,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19377\/revisions\/19378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}