{"id":5081,"date":"2012-08-24T08:24:29","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T14:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=5081"},"modified":"2012-08-24T08:24:29","modified_gmt":"2012-08-24T14:24:29","slug":"gop-inconsistencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/gop-inconsistencies\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Inconsistencies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/m.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/eugene-robinson-a-storm-the-gop-didnt-expect\/2012\/08\/23\/b682a560-ed54-11e1-a80b-9f898562d010_story.html?wprss=rss_eugene-robinson\">Washington Post<\/a> <\/p>\n<h4>A storm the GOP didn\u2019t expect <\/h4>\n<p> By Eugene Robinson,&#160; Published: AUGUST 23, 7:56 PM ET   <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Tension between idealists and pragmatists is inevitable in politics, but the struggle taking place within today\u2019s Republican Party is extreme. <font style=\"background-color: #ffc000\">The GOP believes in limited government that stays out of our business and lets us live our lives \u2014 but also wants to police every pregnancy in the land.<\/font> The party says it wants to cut wasteful federal spending \u2014 but also insists on showering the Pentagon with billions for weapons systems the generals don\u2019t even want. The party says it wants to balance the budget \u2014 but endorses a plan, authored by Ryan, that cuts taxes for the wealthy without specifying the offsetting budget cuts that would be required to keep deficits from ballooning out of control.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/m.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/eugene-robinson-a-storm-the-gop-didnt-expect\/2012\/08\/23\/b682a560-ed54-11e1-a80b-9f898562d010_story.html?wprss=rss_eugene-robinson\">Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Post A storm the GOP didn\u2019t expect By Eugene Robinson,&#160; Published: AUGUST 23, 7:56 PM ET Tension between idealists and pragmatists is inevitable in politics, but the struggle taking place within today\u2019s Republican Party is extreme. The GOP believes in limited government that stays out of our business and lets us live our lives &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/gop-inconsistencies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">GOP Inconsistencies<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-5081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5081","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=5081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5082,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5081\/revisions\/5082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}