{"id":1923,"date":"2006-06-24T10:51:25","date_gmt":"2006-06-24T16:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/not-blindly-united\/"},"modified":"2006-06-24T10:51:25","modified_gmt":"2006-06-24T16:51:25","slug":"not-blindly-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/not-blindly-united\/","title":{"rendered":"not blindly united"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/06\/23\/AR2006062301490.html?referrer=email\">Clinton Says GOP Blindly Follows Bush<\/a> By Dan Balz, Washington Post Staff Writer<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) said, &#8220;We&#8217;re not blindly united like the other side is, where they are like the three monkeys &#8212; &#8216;hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil,&#8217; &#8221; she told reporters after a speech to the Democratic group NDN. &#8220;They&#8217;re not going to say anything negative about the president, the vice president, the secretary of defense or anybody else. I think that&#8217;s irresponsible. It&#8217;s negligent.&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When people say, &#8216;Gee, the Democrats seemed not to have a unified position,&#8217; I can very straightforwardly say I&#8217;m proud of the debate that we&#8217;re having,&#8221; she said. <strong class=\"highlight\">&#8220;We are trying to fulfill our responsibilities, in contrast to our friends on the other side, who have abdicated theirs.&#8221;<\/strong> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Clinton said her party&#8217;s stance of &#8220;honestly and openly struggling&#8221; with the issue of Iraq is in contrast to the GOP&#8217;s embrace of the White House&#8217;s conduct. &#8220;There is very little willingness to do what should be done in holding this administration accountable,&#8221; she said. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The aggressive Republican rhetoric throughout the debate caused considerable consternation among Democratic politicians and strategists. &#8230; Republican National Committee spokeswoman Tracey Schmitt offered a harsher appraisal, saying that the Democratic divisions add up to &#8220;surrender to the terrorists.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracyjournal.org\/\">Democracy Journal<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedemocraticstrategist.org\/premiere\/\">Democratic Strategist<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clinton Says GOP Blindly Follows Bush By Dan Balz, Washington Post Staff Writer Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) said, &#8220;We&#8217;re not blindly united like the other side is, where they are like the three monkeys &#8212; &#8216;hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil,&#8217; &#8221; she told reporters after a speech to the Democratic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/not-blindly-united\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">not blindly united<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923","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=1923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}