{"id":33089,"date":"2013-01-02T05:52:02","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T11:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=33089"},"modified":"2013-01-02T05:52:02","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T11:52:02","slug":"de-triangulating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=33089","title":{"rendered":"De-Triangulating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when Obama was a &#8220;moderate&#8221; on guns? When he spent a couple of years trying to show Americans he wasn&#8217;t <em>that<\/em> kind of Chicago pol?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kBHkMADXnOw\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I didn&#8217;t either.<\/p>\n<p>In 1994, the backlash against Clinton&#8217;s raft of gun laws was a key part of the Republican Revolution that swept the country; the likes of Newt Gingrich wanted us to think it was all &#8220;Contract with America&#8221;, and that was the marquee event to be sure, but for a whoooole lot of people, it was the Democrats voting for (and some GOPers caving to) the anti-gun panic that drove votes.<\/p>\n<p>Remember Rod Grams&#8217; defeat of Ann Wynia?<\/p>\n<p>Does Al Franken remember it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when Obama was a &#8220;moderate&#8221; on guns? When he spent a couple of years trying to show Americans he wasn&#8217;t that kind of Chicago pol? Yeah, I didn&#8217;t either. In 1994, the backlash against Clinton&#8217;s raft of gun laws was a key part of the Republican Revolution that swept the country; the likes of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,155,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics","category-mn-congressional","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33089","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=33089"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33091,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33089\/revisions\/33091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}