{"id":4605,"date":"2012-02-25T11:12:03","date_gmt":"2012-02-25T17:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=4605"},"modified":"2012-02-25T11:12:47","modified_gmt":"2012-02-25T17:12:47","slug":"news-flash-gop-thinking-is-stuck-in-the-past-david-brooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/news-flash-gop-thinking-is-stuck-in-the-past-david-brooks\/","title":{"rendered":"News Flash! &ldquo;GOP thinking is stuck in the past.&rdquo; &ndash; David Brooks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>hat tip to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/jfleck\">@jfleck<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/02\/24\/opinion\/brooks-america-is-europe.html?_r=1\">America Is Europe &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Republicans are perpetually trying to do what Ronald Reagan did. But top tax rates today aren\u2019t as onerous as they were in 1980, so lowering them won\u2019t produce as many benefits. Imagine if Reagan ran for office promising to recreate the glory days of Thomas Dewey and you get a sense of how much G.O.P. thinking is stuck in the past.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/02\/24\/opinion\/brooks-america-is-europe.html?_r=1\">America Is Europe &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>hat tip to @jfleck America Is Europe &#8211; NYTimes.com Republicans are perpetually trying to do what Ronald Reagan did. But top tax rates today aren\u2019t as onerous as they were in 1980, so lowering them won\u2019t produce as many benefits. Imagine if Reagan ran for office promising to recreate the glory days of Thomas Dewey &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/news-flash-gop-thinking-is-stuck-in-the-past-david-brooks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">News Flash! &ldquo;GOP thinking is stuck in the past.&rdquo; &ndash; David Brooks<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[40],"class_list":["post-4605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election","tag-fleck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4605","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=4605"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4607,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4605\/revisions\/4607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}