{"id":65244,"date":"2017-11-28T05:00:25","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T11:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65244"},"modified":"2017-11-26T16:33:33","modified_gmt":"2017-11-26T22:33:33","slug":"everything-thats-old-is-suspicious-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65244","title":{"rendered":"Everything That&#8217;s Old Is Suspicious Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/us\/while-eyes-are-on-russia-sessions-dramatically-reshapes-the-justice-department\/ar-BBFBzCM?li=BBmkt5R&amp;ocid=spartandhp\">Here\u2019s something you don\u2019t see every day<\/a>:\u00a0 a political appointee reshaping his department to reflect the mood of the people who elected him, changing priorities, reversing interpretations, shuffling staffing.<\/p>\n<p>Oh wait, yes, you do.\u00a0 This is exactly what happens every time political power changes hands.\u00a0 Only now it\u2019s going our way instead of Obama\u2019s way, so Liberals are sputtering with outrage.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t see why.\u00a0 Sessions\u2019 changes to the Justice Department shouldn\u2019t be surprising.\u00a0 I seem to remember complaining about a radical change in direction eight years ago and hearing someone tell: \u201cElections have consequences and at the end of the day, I won.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sauce for the goose, baby\u00a0 . . . .<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We&#8217;ve got a generation of people &#8211; some in positions of some poiwer &#8211; who barely remember not having Barack Obama in power, and thus have no concept of anyone else ruling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Here\u2019s something you don\u2019t see every day:\u00a0 a political appointee reshaping his department to reflect the mood of the people who elected him, changing priorities, reversing interpretations, shuffling staffing. Oh wait, yes, you do.\u00a0 This is exactly what happens every time political power changes hands.\u00a0 Only now it\u2019s going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,255],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-the-racket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65244","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=65244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65250,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65244\/revisions\/65250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}