{"id":4728,"date":"2009-05-04T06:31:38","date_gmt":"2009-05-04T11:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4728"},"modified":"2009-05-04T06:31:38","modified_gmt":"2009-05-04T11:31:38","slug":"overreach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4728","title":{"rendered":"Overreach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Starting about November 5, I figured that Obama, and especially the Congress&#8217; Democrats, after being thwarted for almost thirty years, would not be able to resist overreach.<\/p>\n<p>Hugh Hewitt, writing from the road on his &#8220;100 Days Tour&#8221;, <a href=\"http:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/HughHewitt\/2009\/05\/03\/a_change_in_the_wind?page=2\">writes:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The energy of the tea parties and which we see on our tour of the country may not be a majority movement yet, but it clearly indicates that the new president has blown off the idea of a new politics and a new bipartisanship, and that the signal has been received loud and clear. The unaligned voters of America thought they might be electing a post-partisan, post-ideological president but already know &#8211;and will learn again and again&#8211; that what they actually got was a hard left ideologue with a wonderful reading voice. Bait-and-switch has never gone over very well with Americans.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>By the way &#8211; do try to make it to the &#8220;Obama&#8217;s First 100 Days&#8221; get-together at the Convention Center, a week from tonight.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/salemtc.com\/store\/page69.html\">Go here for details<\/a>.\u00a0 I hope to see you there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting about November 5, I figured that Obama, and especially the Congress&#8217; Democrats, after being thwarted for almost thirty years, would not be able to resist overreach. Hugh Hewitt, writing from the road on his &#8220;100 Days Tour&#8221;, writes: The energy of the tea parties and which we see on our tour of the country [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-center-right-altmedia","category-culture-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4728","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=4728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}