{"id":2788,"date":"2010-02-03T11:38:09","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T16:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2788"},"modified":"2010-02-03T11:43:49","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T16:43:49","slug":"i-caucuses-with-the-dfl-again-last-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2788","title":{"rendered":"I caucused with the DFL again last night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/.a\/6a00d83451c45669e201287752e193970c-500wi\" alt=\"What today's Republicans think\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I completely agree with the pundit Andrew Sullivan on<a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2010\/02\/what-republicans-believe.html\"> his reaction<\/a> to this poll of GOP thinking. <\/p>\n<p>Last night I caucused for the third biennium in a row with the local Democrats. I still feel like a man without a country when I do this.  But I approve of Barack Obama who is just the sort of reasonable human and rational political leader I&#8217;ve always looked for. I went to the DFL caucus as much to protect Obama from his Democratic critics as to keep my finger in the political world.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t changed much over the past 35 years I&#8217;ve waded in GOP  politics. The wading pool has sure changed though with infotainer\/Coughlinite radio and television thugs who cull the party of heretics like me who simply yearn for good governance.<\/p>\n<p>In comparasion the self-righteous Democrats that I&#8217;ve always rolled my eyes at are merely insufferable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I completely agree with the pundit Andrew Sullivan on his reaction to this poll of GOP thinking. Last night I caucused for the third&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2788"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}