{"id":4826,"date":"2012-05-17T08:46:24","date_gmt":"2012-05-17T14:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=4826"},"modified":"2012-05-17T08:46:25","modified_gmt":"2012-05-17T14:46:25","slug":"the-gop-is-an-apocalyptic-cult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/the-gop-is-an-apocalyptic-cult\/","title":{"rendered":"The GOP is an “apocalyptic cult”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Don\u2019t blame the Dems for hyper-partisanship – Leonard Pitts Jr. – MiamiHerald.com<\/a> <\/p>\n

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[T]his is not a problem caused by partisans \u201cat both ends of the political spectrum.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was not Democrats who held the economy hostage in a manufactured debt ceiling crisis that caused the nation\u2019s credit rating to be lowered for the first time in history.<\/p>\n

It was not Democrats who voted down their own deficit reduction resolution, apparently because they didn\u2019t want the president to share credit. <\/p>\n

It was not a Democratic leader who declared defeating the president his top legislative priority.<\/p>\n

No, it was Republicans who did all that. And it is not Democrats who have seen a steady trickle of condemnation and defection by their own appalled members. <\/p>\n

That trickle includes Nathan Fletcher, a San Diego mayoral candidate who left the GOP because, \u201cI don\u2019t believe we have to treat people we disagree with as an enemy.\u201d<\/p>\n

And former Sen. Chuck Hagel, who said he was \u201cdisgusted\u201d by the \u201cirresponsible actions\u201d of the GOP during the debt ceiling crisis.<\/p>\n

And congressional staffer Mike Lofgren, who likened his party to an \u201capocalyptic cult.\u201d<\/p>\n

And former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who said too many in the GOP regard it as \u201can exclusive club where your ideological card is checked at the door.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Don\u2019t blame the Dems for hyper-partisanship – Leonard Pitts Jr. – MiamiHerald.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Don\u2019t blame the Dems for hyper-partisanship – Leonard Pitts Jr. – MiamiHerald.com [T]his is not a problem caused by partisans \u201cat both ends of the political spectrum.\u201d It was not Democrats who held the economy hostage in a manufactured debt ceiling crisis that caused the nation\u2019s credit rating to be lowered for the first time … Continue reading The GOP is an “apocalyptic cult”<\/span> →<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-4826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4826","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=4826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4827,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4826\/revisions\/4827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}