{"id":9494,"date":"2010-03-22T05:17:42","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T10:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=9494"},"modified":"2010-07-07T19:58:30","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T00:58:30","slug":"9494","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=9494","title":{"rendered":"A Bright(er) Spot"},"content":{"rendered":"

The good news yesterday? The House GOP caucus stood firm, even though they were prohibitively outnumbered.<\/p>\n

And conservatism got a new hero:<\/p>\n

\"Paul<\/a>

Paul Ryan (R-WI)<\/p><\/div>\n

“The philosophy advanced on this floor by the majority today is so arrogant, it’s condescending, and it tramples upon the principles that have made America so exceptional.”<\/p>\n

“My friends, we are fast approaching a tipping point where more Americans depend upon the Federal government than upon themselves for their livelihood; a point where we, the American people, trade in our commitment and our concern for our individual liberties in exchange for government benefits and dependencies.”<\/p>\n

“More to the point, Madame Speaker, we have seen this movie before, and we know how it ends. The European social welfare state promoted by this legislation is not sustainable.”<\/p>\n

“This is not who we are, and this is not who we should become”<\/p>\n

“If this passes, the quest to reclaim the American ideal is not over. The fight to reapply our founding principl,es is not finished.\u00a0 It’s just a steeper hill to climb.\u00a0 And it’s a climb that we will make!”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’ve heard “Ryan For President!” talk.\u00a0 Today, I could be persuaded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The good news yesterday? The House GOP caucus stood firm, even though they were prohibitively outnumbered. And conservatism got a new hero: “The philosophy advanced on this floor by the majority today is so arrogant, it’s condescending, and it tramples upon the principles that have made America so exceptional.” “My friends, we are fast approaching […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9494","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=9494"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11864,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9494\/revisions\/11864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}