{"id":7131,"date":"2014-11-05T13:01:16","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T19:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=7131"},"modified":"2014-11-05T13:01:16","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T19:01:16","slug":"2016-campaign-commercials-are-already-in-the-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/2016-campaign-commercials-are-already-in-the-can\/","title":{"rendered":"2016 campaign commercials are already in the can."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIn 2014, you elected us to bring change to Washington. For the past two years, Republicans have endeavored to move the nation forward but have been stymied by an obstructionist in the White House. We need a Republican President to complete the work of the nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>If anything gets past Obama\u2019s veto, it will be an unlikely compromise that Republicans will take 100% of the credit for. Mitch McConnell wrote this game plan years ago. <\/p>\n<p>We need to keep recording and replaying the words of Republicans when they let their masks slip, as Allen Weh did when he spoke of lowering the minimum wage. \u201cSo what?,\u201d he intoned with such disdain his voice finally matched his mean ugly mug. That was a perfect echo of Romney\u2019s disdain for the 47% (really, the 99%). These are the scoundrels, the old, rich, white men who aren\u2019t going to let go of power until we tear it from their cold dead fingers. So be it. (Not a call to violence but a play on one of their many bullshit phrases we\u2019ve all memorized through endless replay.) Record every word. Replay them every chance. Bring truth to corrupt, self-serving power. REAL truth, not Fox \u2018truth\u2019. They will stumble; the mask will slip again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIn 2014, you elected us to bring change to Washington. For the past two years, Republicans have endeavored to move the nation forward but have been stymied by an obstructionist in the White House. We need a Republican President to complete the work of the nation.\u201d If anything gets past Obama\u2019s veto, it will be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/2016-campaign-commercials-are-already-in-the-can\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2016 campaign commercials are already in the can.<\/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":[16,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election","category-nada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7131","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=7131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7132,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7131\/revisions\/7132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}