{"id":69575,"date":"2018-12-26T06:00:37","date_gmt":"2018-12-26T12:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=69575"},"modified":"2019-02-08T06:05:45","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T12:05:45","slug":"whats-the-difference-between-the-gop-and-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=69575","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;What&#8217;s The Difference Between The GOP And Democrats?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The short answer:  whille the GOP on the national level capitulates on spending and allow all sorts of government scope creep the chips are down, the Democrats take the gas pedal of power and <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2018\/12\/25\/democrats-green-new-deal\/\">jam it to the firewall<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Democrats are increasingly lining up to support a \u201cGreen New Deal,\u201d which, while vague on details, could end up being the largest expansion of government in decades.<br>As it stands, the \u201cGreen New Deal\u201d is more aspirational than actual policy. Indeed, it takes its name from the New Deal of the 1930s, and its main backer, incoming Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, compared it to the Great Society of the 1960s.<br>More than 40 Democratic lawmakers&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2018\/12\/20\/house-democrats-green-new-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\">support<\/a>&nbsp;the \u201cGreen New Deal\u201d as part of a broad plan to fight global warming and bring about what they see as \u201ceconomic, social and racial justice.\u201d A&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/earther.gizmodo.com\/new-poll-shows-basically-everyone-likes-alexandria-ocas-1831158171\" target=\"_blank\">poll<\/a>&nbsp;found most Americans supported the deal, but knew little about it.<br>But the big question is when Americans find out what\u2019s in the \u201cGreen New Deal,\u201d will they be willing to pay for it?<br><br><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>After a few months or years of media alarmism and emotional logrolling from an in-the-bag media?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is that even a serious question? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The short answer: whille the GOP on the national level capitulates on spending and allow all sorts of government scope creep the chips are down, the Democrats take the gas pedal of power and jam it to the firewall: Democrats are increasingly lining up to support a \u201cGreen New Deal,\u201d which, while vague on details, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,61],"tags":[406],"class_list":["post-69575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-global-warmingcoolingchange","tag-tide-pod-evita"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69575","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=69575"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69577,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69575\/revisions\/69577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}