{"id":4819,"date":"2009-05-22T07:04:31","date_gmt":"2009-05-22T12:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4819"},"modified":"2009-05-22T07:04:31","modified_gmt":"2009-05-22T12:04:31","slug":"sweeping-up-the-debris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4819","title":{"rendered":"Sweeping Up The Debris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone, myself included, has a list of the things the GOP needs to <em>do <\/em>to repair itself an the nation.<\/p>\n<p>J Ewing, writing at True North, correctly notes that it may be just as important to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.looktruenorth.com\/limited-government\/49-conservatism\/8283-the-undo-list.html\">have a list of things to undo:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I propose that the most positive and effective message Republicans can have for the 2010 election is &#8220;The Undo List.&#8221;  This would be similar to a Contract with America, but would consist only of those things in which Democrats have overreached, and tried to solve the problems created by big government with even bigger government intrusions.  If it were to be announced immediately, it could even be effective during debate on these issues, demonstrating to Democrats that &#8220;the people&#8221; do not agree with their proposals and will punish them at the polls for their perfidy.  Democrats HATE that, even more than they hate to cut spending&#8230; ever.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.looktruenorth.com\/limited-government\/49-conservatism\/8283-the-undo-list.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.looktruenorth.com\/images\/FreedomDogs\/looktruenorthsmall140.png\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>We will never &#8220;get our country back&#8221; until we can undo what the Left has done to us over the last many years, and that will require Republicans to field candidates, at all levels, with the political courage to oppose our socialist drift (now a tide) AND the political power to undo it, one piece at a time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The list could be as long as the federal budget.<\/p>\n<p>Heck &#8211; the list could <em>be <\/em>the federal budget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone, myself included, has a list of the things the GOP needs to do to repair itself an the nation. J Ewing, writing at True North, correctly notes that it may be just as important to have a list of things to undo: I propose that the most positive and effective message Republicans can have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4819","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=4819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}