{"id":5839,"date":"2013-02-19T20:52:50","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T02:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=5839"},"modified":"2013-02-19T20:52:50","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T02:52:50","slug":"ted-cruz-the-g-o-p-s-nasty-newcomer-nytimes-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/ted-cruz-the-g-o-p-s-nasty-newcomer-nytimes-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Ted Cruz, the G.O.P.&rsquo;s Nasty Newcomer &#8211; NYTimes.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/02\/17\/opinion\/sunday\/ted-cruz-the-gops-nasty-newcomer.html?_r=0\">Ted Cruz, the G.O.P.\u2019s Nasty Newcomer &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Ted Cruz, a Republican freshman in the Senate who has been front and center in his party\u2019s effort to squash Chuck Hagel\u2019s nomination as secretary of defense, has a problem. He\u2019s an ornery, swaggering piece of work. Just six weeks since his arrival on Capitol Hill, he\u2019s already known for his naysaying, his nit-picking and his itch to upbraid lawmakers who are vastly senior to him, who have sacrificed more than he has and who deserve a measure of respect, or at least an iota of courtesy. Courtesy isn\u2019t Cruz\u2019s m\u00e9tier. Grandstanding and browbeating are. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/02\/17\/opinion\/sunday\/ted-cruz-the-gops-nasty-newcomer.html?_r=0\">Ted Cruz, the G.O.P.\u2019s Nasty Newcomer &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ted Cruz, the G.O.P.\u2019s Nasty Newcomer &#8211; NYTimes.com Ted Cruz, a Republican freshman in the Senate who has been front and center in his party\u2019s effort to squash Chuck Hagel\u2019s nomination as secretary of defense, has a problem. He\u2019s an ornery, swaggering piece of work. Just six weeks since his arrival on Capitol Hill, he\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/ted-cruz-the-g-o-p-s-nasty-newcomer-nytimes-com\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ted Cruz, the G.O.P.&rsquo;s Nasty Newcomer &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/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-5839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5839","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=5839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}