{"id":39111,"date":"2013-10-20T08:30:33","date_gmt":"2013-10-20T13:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=39111"},"modified":"2013-10-19T09:50:21","modified_gmt":"2013-10-19T14:50:21","slug":"doakes-sunday-not-cottoning-to-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=39111","title":{"rendered":"Doakes Sunday:  Not Cottoning To This"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/strong>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\n<p>Tom Cotton is one of the 87 Republicans who voted to cave.\u00a0 He did it because he thought Obama would voluntarily default on the national debt which would plunge the world into economic chaos, and the main-steam media would blame it on Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>In other words: Cotton believed Obama would shoot the hostage so Cotton paid the ransom But Let Obama Keep The Hostage!<\/p>\n<p>The continuing resolution only kicks the can down the road for a few months.\u00a0 Republicans can try to negotiate something in January. \u00a0I get that.<\/p>\n<p>But here\u2019s the thing about setting a precedent, Tommy Boy . . . .<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That precedent was set decades ago. Even Reagan made some unconscionable compromises for reasons that seem dumb in retrospect (and to conservatives seemed dumb in 1987).<\/p>\n<p>The challenge is in trying, at long last, to break it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Tom Cotton is one of the 87 Republicans who voted to cave.\u00a0 He did it because he thought Obama would voluntarily default on the national debt which would plunge the world into economic chaos, and the main-steam media would blame it on Republicans. In other words: Cotton believed Obama [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39111","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=39111"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39118,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39111\/revisions\/39118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}