{"id":11057,"date":"2010-05-25T05:56:56","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T10:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=11057"},"modified":"2010-05-25T03:57:16","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T08:57:16","slug":"remember-when","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=11057","title":{"rendered":"Remember When…"},"content":{"rendered":"

…dissent was the highest form of patriotism?<\/p>\n

Either does Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick,<\/a> who compares the opposition he receives as head of a lobotomized blue state with what happens in Washington:<\/p>\n

“It seems like child\u2019s play compared to what is going on in Washington, where it is almost at the level of sedition, it feels to like me,\u201d Patrick said.<\/p>\n

Merriam-Webster.com, the dictionary site, defines sedition as “incitement of resistance to or insurrection against lawful authority.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But for goodness’ sake, don’t question his patriotism!<\/p>\n

After the forum, Patrick explained his remarks.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that the number of people in the Grand Old Party who seem to be absolutely committed to saying \u2018no,’ whenever he says \u2018yes,\u2019 no matter what it is, even if it\u2019s an idea that they came up with, is just extraordinary,\u201d the governor told reporters after the forum.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If everything he says and does wrong (and everything he takes from us is used to soften things up for something equally loathsome), then why should <\/em>we say “yes”?\u00a0 For the sake of Deval Patrick?<\/p>\n

But did the opposition really border on sedition?<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was a rhetorical flourish,\u201d Patrick said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Deval Patrick’s mother swims after troop ships.<\/p>\n

That’s a rhetorical flourish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…dissent was the highest form of patriotism? Either does Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick, who compares the opposition he receives as head of a lobotomized blue state with what happens in Washington: “It seems like child\u2019s play compared to what is going on in Washington, where it is almost at the level of sedition, it feels […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-president-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11057"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11059,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11057\/revisions\/11059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}