{"id":39114,"date":"2013-10-20T10:00:32","date_gmt":"2013-10-20T15:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=39114"},"modified":"2013-10-19T09:55:30","modified_gmt":"2013-10-19T14:55:30","slug":"doakes-sunday-for-want-of-a-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=39114","title":{"rendered":"Doakes Sunday:  For Want Of A Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/strong>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Congressional Republicans gave John Boehner a standing ovation\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/361432\/last-conference-jonathan-strong\" target=\"_blank\">for caving in<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe all agree Obamacare is an abomination. We all agree taxes are too high. We all agree spending is too high. We all agree Washington is getting in the way of job growth. We all agree we have a real debt crisis that will cripple future generations. We all agree on these fundamental conservative principles. . . .\u00a0We must not confuse tactics with principles. The differences between us are dwarfed by the differences we have with the Democratic party, and we can do more for the American people\u00a0united,\u201d [Eric Cantor] told\u00a0them.<\/p>\n<p>And apparently, we all agree we aren\u2019t going to do shit about it.<\/p>\n<p>Hooray for us!\u00a0 Ribbons for everyone!\u00a0 We are all winners!\u00a0 Hooray!<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If there was ever a time the GOP needed a strong leader &#8211; as opposed to a tactician &#8211; it was this past week.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, well. There&#8217;ll be other epochal go\/no-go moments&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Congressional Republicans gave John Boehner a standing ovation\u00a0for caving in. \u201cWe all agree Obamacare is an abomination. We all agree taxes are too high. We all agree spending is too high. We all agree Washington is getting in the way of job growth. We all agree we have a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39114","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=39114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39126,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39114\/revisions\/39126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}