{"id":7023,"date":"2014-08-01T10:41:19","date_gmt":"2014-08-01T16:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=7023"},"modified":"2014-08-01T10:41:20","modified_gmt":"2014-08-01T16:41:20","slug":"an-upending-of-reason-in-the-house-the-washington-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/an-upending-of-reason-in-the-house-the-washington-post\/","title":{"rendered":"An upending of reason in the House &#8211; The Washington Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/dana-milbank-an-upending-of-reason-in-the-house\/2014\/08\/01\/d5787cd4-1970-11e4-9e3b-7f2f110c6265_story.html?wprss=rss_dana-milbank\">An upending of reason in the House &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a> By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/pb\/dana-milbank\">Dana Milbank<\/a> Opinion writer<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Just the day before, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/federal_government\/gop-led-house-ready-to-ok-lawsuit-against-obama\/2014\/07\/30\/519f28e6-17bc-11e4-88f7-96ed767bb747_story.html\">House Republicans had voted to sue Obama<\/a> for using his executive authority. They called him lawless, a usurper, a monarch, a tyrant \u2014 all for postponing deadlines in the implementation of Obamacare. Now they were begging him to take executive action to compensate for their own inability to act \u2014 even though, in this case, accelerating the deportation of thousands of unaccompanied children coming from Central America would likely require Obama to ignore a 2008 law.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>This was not a momentary lapse, but a wholesale upending of reason.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/dana-milbank-an-upending-of-reason-in-the-house\/2014\/08\/01\/d5787cd4-1970-11e4-9e3b-7f2f110c6265_story.html?wprss=rss_dana-milbank\">An upending of reason in the House &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Damn if he does, damned if he doesn\u2019t. Obama can do nothing to satisfy these jerks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An upending of reason in the House &#8211; The Washington Post By Dana Milbank Opinion writer Just the day before, House Republicans had voted to sue Obama for using his executive authority. They called him lawless, a usurper, a monarch, a tyrant \u2014 all for postponing deadlines in the implementation of Obamacare. Now they were &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/an-upending-of-reason-in-the-house-the-washington-post\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">An upending of reason in the House &#8211; The Washington Post<\/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-7023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7023","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=7023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}