{"id":71760,"date":"2019-07-24T06:00:51","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T11:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71760"},"modified":"2019-07-20T17:41:09","modified_gmt":"2019-07-20T22:41:09","slug":"71760","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71760","title":{"rendered":"Life-Affirming"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Watching Maureen Dowd fret over the catfight between Gramma Nan and Tide Pod Evita is&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;well, deliciously life-affirming:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Rahm Emanuel told me Chakrabarti is \u201ca snot-nosed punk\u201d who has no idea about the battle scars Pelosi bears from the liberal fights she has led.<br>\u201cWhat votes did you get?\u201d Emanuel said, rhetorically challenging A.O.C.\u2019s chief of staff. \u201cYou should only be so lucky to learn from somebody like Nancy who has shown incredible courage and who has twice returned the Democratic Party to power.<br>\u201cWe fought for years to create the majorities to get a Democratic president elected and re-elected, and they\u2019re going to dither it away. They have not decided what\u2019s more important: Do they want to beat Trump or do they want to clear the moderate and centrists out of the party? You really think weakening the speaker is the right strategy to try to get rid of Donald Trump and everything he stands for?\u201d<br>In the age of Trump, there is no more stupid proposition than that Nancy Pelosi is the problem. If A.O.C. and her Pygmalions and acolytes decide that burning down the House is more important than deposing Trump, they will be left with a racist backward president and the emotional satisfaction of their own purity.<br><br><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>On, Nan and Evita &#8211; I hate it when you fight. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No.  Wait.  I love it when you fight.  My bad.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watching Maureen Dowd fret over the catfight between Gramma Nan and Tide Pod Evita is&#8230; &#8230;well, deliciously life-affirming: Rahm Emanuel told me Chakrabarti is \u201ca snot-nosed punk\u201d who has no idea about the battle scars Pelosi bears from the liberal fights she has led.\u201cWhat votes did you get?\u201d Emanuel said, rhetorically challenging A.O.C.\u2019s chief of [&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-71760","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\/71760","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=71760"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71789,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71760\/revisions\/71789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}