{"id":6489,"date":"2013-10-18T16:33:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T22:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=6489"},"modified":"2013-10-18T14:54:17","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T20:54:17","slug":"how-many-republicans-will-stand-against-the-radical-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/how-many-republicans-will-stand-against-the-radical-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"How many Republicans will stand against the Radical Wrong?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/eugene-robinson-republicans-hollow-defeat\/2013\/10\/17\/ec54eb1c-375e-11e3-ae46-e4248e75c8ea_story.html?wprss=rss_eugene-robinson\">Eugene Robinson: Republicans\u2019 hollow defeat &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>There are some who see Cruz for what he is. \u201cThe fact is, if you come up with a strategy that\u2019s going to shut down the government of the United States, and you have no way of winning, <strong><font style=\"background-color: #ffc000\">you\u2019re either a fraud or you\u2019re totally incompetent<\/font><\/strong>,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/piersmorgan.blogs.cnn.com\/2013\/10\/14\/peter-king-on-ted-cruz-either-a-fraud-or-totally-incompetent-he-can-have-his-choice\/\">Rep. Peter King<\/a> (R-N.Y.) told CNN. \u201cWe are not going to allow Ted Cruz to hijack this party.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Many House Republicans \u2014 perhaps a majority \u2014 would agree. But few will utter such sentiments out loud, what with powerful right-wing pressure <a href=\"http:\/\/heritageaction.com\/\">groups such as Heritage Action<\/a> still sounding the battle cry.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/eugene-robinson-republicans-hollow-defeat\/2013\/10\/17\/ec54eb1c-375e-11e3-ae46-e4248e75c8ea_story.html?wprss=rss_eugene-robinson\">Eugene Robinson: Republicans\u2019 hollow defeat &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eugene Robinson: Republicans\u2019 hollow defeat &#8211; The Washington Post There are some who see Cruz for what he is. \u201cThe fact is, if you come up with a strategy that\u2019s going to shut down the government of the United States, and you have no way of winning, you\u2019re either a fraud or you\u2019re totally incompetent,\u201d &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/how-many-republicans-will-stand-against-the-radical-wrong\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How many Republicans will stand against the Radical Wrong?<\/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-6489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6489","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=6489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6490,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6489\/revisions\/6490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}