{"id":2917,"date":"2009-11-11T15:15:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T22:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/cooperation-weakens-the-republican-brand\/"},"modified":"2009-11-11T15:15:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-11T22:15:00","slug":"cooperation-weakens-the-republican-brand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/cooperation-weakens-the-republican-brand\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooperation &ldquo;Weakens the Republican Brand&rdquo;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The purge continues. Only true believers are welcome.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Think Progress \u00bb Under Pressure From Tea Party Activists, Charleston GOP Censures Lindsey Graham For Bipartisanship\" href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/11\/11\/graham-censure-climatechange\/\">Think Progress \u00bb Under Pressure From Tea Party Activists, Charleston GOP Censures Lindsey Graham For Bipartisanship<\/a>&#160;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>On Monday, the Charleston County Republican Party\u2019s executive committee \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestate.com\/politics\/story\/1022682.html\">took the unusual step<\/a>\u201d of officially censuring Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC). The local GOP committee admonished Graham for stepping across party lines to work with Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) on a bipartisan clean energy bill and other pieces of legislation. <strong>The censure stated that Graham\u2019s \u201cbipartisanship continues to weaken the Republican brand and <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesunnews.com\/575\/story\/1161303.html\"><strong>tarnish the ideals of freedom<\/strong><\/a><strong>.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/11\/11\/graham-censure-climatechange\/\">Think Progress \u00bb Under Pressure From Tea Party Activists, Charleston GOP Censures Lindsey Graham For Bipartisanship<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The purge continues. Only true believers are welcome. Think Progress \u00bb Under Pressure From Tea Party Activists, Charleston GOP Censures Lindsey Graham For Bipartisanship&#160; On Monday, the Charleston County Republican Party\u2019s executive committee \u201ctook the unusual step\u201d of officially censuring Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC). The local GOP committee admonished Graham for stepping across party lines &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/cooperation-weakens-the-republican-brand\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cooperation &ldquo;Weakens the Republican Brand&rdquo;<\/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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2917","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=2917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}