{"id":39123,"date":"2013-10-20T10:09:22","date_gmt":"2013-10-20T15:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=39123"},"modified":"2013-10-19T10:37:28","modified_gmt":"2013-10-19T15:37:28","slug":"doakes-sunday-overpowered-by-duh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=39123","title":{"rendered":"Doakes Sunday:  Overpowered By Duh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Senate Republicans caved.\u00a0 House leadership caved.\u00a0 Rationale seems to be that if they don\u2019t cave, people will say bad things about them.\u00a0 And if Republicans don\u2019t work with Democrats to pass laws Democrats want, then Democrats won\u2019t work with Republicans to get laws Republicans want passed in the future.\u00a0 We have to go along now to get along later.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, okay, here, take my lunch money but don\u2019t hit me.<\/p>\n<p>No, you morons, Democrat will\u00a0never go along with any Republican law, now or in the future.\u00a0 And the media is going to say bad things about you no matter what you do.<\/p>\n<p>You can\u2019t buy your way into friendship with bullies, you have to kick their asses to generate some respect so you can begin to negotiate as equals.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It was a frustrating week indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Senate Republicans caved.\u00a0 House leadership caved.\u00a0 Rationale seems to be that if they don\u2019t cave, people will say bad things about them.\u00a0 And if Republicans don\u2019t work with Democrats to pass laws Democrats want, then Democrats won\u2019t work with Republicans to get laws Republicans want passed in the future.\u00a0 [&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-39123","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\/39123","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=39123"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39140,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39123\/revisions\/39140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}