{"id":183,"date":"2005-12-14T12:14:30","date_gmt":"2005-12-14T18:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=183"},"modified":"2005-12-14T14:14:59","modified_gmt":"2005-12-14T20:14:59","slug":"beyond-the-war-spin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/beyond-the-war-spin\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond The War Spin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-\n\ndyn\/content\/article\/2005\/12\/12\/AR2005121201264.html\">Beyond The War Spin<\/a> By E. J. Dionne Jr.<\/p>\n<p>[T]he Democrats&#8217; problem is not <\/p>\n<p>just one of political tactics. It&#8217;s also rooted in a simple reality: Democrats in both houses of Congress have been divided on this war <\/p>\n<p>from the very beginning. House Democrats are, on the whole, more dovish than Senate Democrats. And the party&#8217;s rank and file are, on the <\/p>\n<p>whole, more dovish than its congressional wing.<\/p>\n<p>There is no magic solution to this problem, and Republicans will continue to <\/p>\n<p>exploit it. But if they do nothing else, Democrats have to stop being defensive in the face of Republican attacks. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In any <\/p>\n<p>event, why shouldn&#8217;t Democrats be divided on the war? So is the rest of the country. And so are Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s gone largely <\/p>\n<p>unnoticed is that while Democrats show their divisions on the war in Congress, Republicans are more divided at the grass roots. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beyond The War Spin By E. J. Dionne Jr. [T]he Democrats&#8217; problem is not just one of political tactics. It&#8217;s also rooted in a simple reality: Democrats in both houses of Congress have been divided on this war from the very beginning. House Democrats are, on the whole, more dovish than Senate Democrats. And the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/beyond-the-war-spin\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Beyond The War Spin<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","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=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}