{"id":7219,"date":"2015-01-27T19:55:39","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T01:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=7219"},"modified":"2015-01-27T19:55:39","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T01:55:39","slug":"republican-pratfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/republican-pratfall\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican pratfall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fitting that Republicans can\u2019t govern. Note that most of their problems are internal, but when necessary, Democrats can apply techniques they observed the Republicans use. Apparently the public won\u2019t notice or doesn\u2019t care who keeps things from getting done.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/dana-milbank-republicans-discover-that-it-isnt-easy-running-congress\/2015\/01\/27\/cdacca1e-a66a-11e4-a06b-9df2002b86a0_story.html?wprss=rss_dana-milbank\">Republicans discover that it isn\u2019t easy running Congress &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a> By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/people\/dana-milbank\">Dana Milbank<\/a> Opinion writer January 27 at 6:52 PM <a href=\"mailto:dana.milbank@washpost.com?subject=Reader feedback for 'Republicans discover that it isn&rsquo;t easy running Congress'\"><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cYes, there have been a couple of stumbles,\u201d John Boehner acknowledged Tuesday.  <\/p>\n<p>The House speaker had spoken with dry understatement.  <\/p>\n<p>What has happened since Republicans took full control of Congress three weeks ago has been less a stumble than <strong>a pratfall involving the legislative equivalent of a banana peel, flailing arms, an upended bookcase, torn drapes and a slide across a laden banquet table into a wedding cake<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/dana-milbank-republicans-discover-that-it-isnt-easy-running-congress\/2015\/01\/27\/cdacca1e-a66a-11e4-a06b-9df2002b86a0_story.html?wprss=rss_dana-milbank\">Republicans discover that it isn\u2019t easy running Congress &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fitting that Republicans can\u2019t govern. Note that most of their problems are internal, but when necessary, Democrats can apply techniques they observed the Republicans use. Apparently the public won\u2019t notice or doesn\u2019t care who keeps things from getting done. Republicans discover that it isn\u2019t easy running Congress &#8211; The Washington Post By Dana Milbank Opinion &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/republican-pratfall\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Republican pratfall<\/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-7219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7219","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=7219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7220,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7219\/revisions\/7220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}