{"id":90182,"date":"2026-03-30T08:39:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T13:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=90182"},"modified":"2026-04-03T07:52:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T12:52:21","slug":"90182","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=90182","title":{"rendered":"Boots"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>President Trump is threatening to send 10,000 troops to Iran, boots on the ground,&nbsp; which moderate Republicans fear would be crossing a &#8220;red line&#8221; and would cost Republicans the midterm elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fear is that if we lose seats in the midterm elections, then we won&#8217;t have power so we won&#8217;t be able to get Presidential appointments confirmed or judges confirmed or the Save Act passed or DHS funded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Which would be different from now, how, exactly?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe the problem is not lack of Congressional power but lack of willingness to use what power we have. That problem won&#8217;t get solved by backing down from Iran.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yep.  I think we&#8217;re past the point where timidity is the prescription for the midterms.  <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[471,13,131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-26","category-republicans","category-war-and-peace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90182","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=90182"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90184,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90182\/revisions\/90184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}