{"id":9915,"date":"2010-04-08T07:48:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T12:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=9915"},"modified":"2010-04-08T07:48:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T12:48:00","slug":"brave-sir-donkey-ran-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=9915","title":{"rendered":"Brave Sir Donkey Ran Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vulnerable Democrats are <a href=\"http:\/\/apnews.myway.com\/article\/20100408\/D9EUO7801.html\">afraid Obamacare is going to drag them underwater this fall:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Tough votes for Obama&#8217;s health care plan have further complicated the re-election prospects of dozens of already vulnerable freshman and second-term Democrats. There&#8217;s even a chance the party could lose control of one or both houses in the midterm elections.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And the nervous Reps are responding like Brave Sir Robin; they&#8217;re running away from their constituents:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In districts and states where the overhaul was most controversial, town-hall meetings have been replaced with tightly controlled business roundtables and other gatherings with voters.<\/p>\n<p>In Nevada, first-term Democratic Rep. Dina Titus defended her vote for the health care bill in a newspaper piece she co-wrote and in a meeting with female doctors. Facing a vigorous GOP challenge from a Republican physician, she acknowledged treading carefully.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s more of a teaching tour than a selling tour,&#8221; she said of her recent appearances.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Expect to see lots of tightly-controlled, &#8220;on message&#8221; events, and virtually no meetings with uncontrolled groups of peasants.\u00a0 Er, voters.<\/p>\n<p>The obvious answer is this; if the Dems are too cowardly to face the people and answer for the damage they&#8217;ve wrought, the Republicans will have to do it for them.\u00a0 Have town-hall meetings, Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, have &#8217;em in front of your opponents&#8217; offices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vulnerable Democrats are afraid Obamacare is going to drag them underwater this fall: Tough votes for Obama&#8217;s health care plan have further complicated the re-election prospects of dozens of already vulnerable freshman and second-term Democrats. There&#8217;s even a chance the party could lose control of one or both houses in the midterm elections. And the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-10","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9915","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=9915"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9917,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9915\/revisions\/9917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}