{"id":2432,"date":"2008-02-25T12:54:41","date_gmt":"2008-02-25T18:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/loco\/thats-what-ive-been-waiting-for\/"},"modified":"2008-02-25T12:54:45","modified_gmt":"2008-02-25T18:54:45","slug":"thats-what-ive-been-waiting-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/loco\/thats-what-ive-been-waiting-for\/","title":{"rendered":"THAT&#8217;S What I&#8217;ve Been Waiting For"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Finally, some real blood on the floor between Wilson and Pearce. Bring it on! (peace,) mjh<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>[From Heath Haussamen&#8217;s excellent blog:] <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heatherforsenate.com\/\">Heather Wilson<\/a> is attacking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peopleforpearce.com\/\">Steve Pearce<\/a> for claiming on Saturday that England is a bigger exporter of Islamic terrorists than any country in the Middle East.  <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the latest spat in what has become a contentious GOP U.S. Senate primary. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must have a moral standard in this country. We cannot be a moral vacuum,\u201d Pearce said at the Valencia County GOP convention on Saturday. \u201cIf we try to do that I will guarantee that the same thing will happen to us that happened in England. They export more radical Islamic terrorists today than any country in the Middle East. It\u2019s because they said, \u2018We can live in a moral vacuum.\u2019\u201d <em>[mjh: Great Britain could not be reached to confirm this quote.]<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>You can listen to Pearce\u2019s full speech by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haussamen.com\/PearceOnEngland.WMA\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/R8MKmXrNkTI\/AAAAAAAAFEM\/oPwkMShAx1I\/s1600-h\/Pearce,+Steve.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/R8MKmXrNkTI\/AAAAAAAAFEM\/oPwkMShAx1I\/s200\/Pearce,+Steve.jpg\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a>Wilson called on Pearce to justify his remarks or apologize to America\u2019s closest ally in the war on terror. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cA U.S. senator can\u2019t afford to offend our closest ally, particularly when he is wrong on the facts. Senators \u2013 and people who want to be senators \u2013 should not say irresponsible things like this,\u201d Wilson said. \u201c\u2026Great Britain and the United States have had an unwavering, special relationship since World War II. We have a closer relationship with Britain than with any other ally in the War on Terror. To claim that Britain \u2018exports\u2019 more terrorists than the long list of countries that actively support and fund terrorism is incorrect and offensive.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/haussamen.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/wilson-attacks-pearce-for-comments.html\">Heath Haussamen on New Mexico Politics: Wilson attacks Pearce for comments about England<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, some real blood on the floor between Wilson and Pearce. Bring it on! (peace,) mjh&nbsp; [From Heath Haussamen&#8217;s excellent blog:] Heather Wilson is attacking Steve Pearce for claiming on Saturday that England is a bigger exporter of Islamic terrorists than any country in the Middle East. It\u2019s the latest spat in what has become &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/loco\/thats-what-ive-been-waiting-for\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">THAT&#8217;S What I&#8217;ve Been Waiting For<\/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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-loco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2432","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=2432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}