{"id":143,"date":"2005-11-23T05:47:06","date_gmt":"2005-11-23T11:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=143"},"modified":"2005-11-22T16:51:04","modified_gmt":"2005-11-22T22:51:04","slug":"its-time-to-play-hardball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/its-time-to-play-hardball\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s time to play hardball"},"content":{"rendered":"

Notice in the following <\/p>\n

that Cal Thomas is belittling the notion of a “uniter versus a divider,” rejecting the concept of “why can’t everyone just get along” <\/p>\n

and cheering Duhbya, et. al., for becoming more aggressive in attacking any who dare to disagree. Saint Thomas the Uniter, nice guy of <\/p>\n

the year. Republicans are spoiling for a fight anywhere they can find it; their blood-lust is intense. mjh<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Bush and Rove find offense <\/p>\n

matters<\/a> by Cal Thomas<\/p>\n

Democrats reacted immediately, accusing the president of using Veterans Day to politicize the war. What <\/p>\n

have they been doing the other 364 days of the year, if not trying to undermine<\/em> the war effort by playing politics and <\/p>\n

contributing to disunity, thus encouraging the enemy? …<\/p>\n

What these two speeches have in common is their aggressive tone. Before <\/p>\n

demagoguery became the primary product of contemporary politics, we once saw more politicians battling it out with the opposition instead <\/p>\n

of the namby-pamby, feel-good, kumbayah, can’t-we-all-get-along approach that is as palatable as cold oatmeal. Why haven’t we <\/p>\n

heard more of this rhetoric from the administration instead of the unattainable objective of “changing the tone in Washington”?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Bush and Rove speeches should signal a new battle strategy for the administration. … It’s time to play hardball with the <\/p>\n

left and this would be a good first pitch. Offense wins football games and wars. It also shapes public opinion. Stack this political <\/p>\n

offense with more of the type of rhetoric used last week by President Bush and Karl Rove.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Notice in the following that Cal Thomas is belittling the notion of a “uniter versus a divider,” rejecting the concept of “why can’t everyone just get along” and cheering Duhbya, et. al., for becoming more aggressive in attacking any who dare to disagree. Saint Thomas the Uniter, nice guy of the year. Republicans are spoiling … Continue reading It’s time to play hardball<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}