{"id":3262,"date":"2010-09-16T11:13:40","date_gmt":"2010-09-16T16:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3262"},"modified":"2010-09-16T11:20:24","modified_gmt":"2010-09-16T16:20:24","slug":"we-have-met-the-enemy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3262","title":{"rendered":"We have met the enemy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.igopogo.com\/images\/pogoplaque.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nand to continue paraphrasing Pogo: shot ourselves in the foot. Ted Kopple&#8217;s explains it far more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/09\/09\/AR2010090904735.html\">eloquently<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>I blame the Tea Party mentality that was lying dormant all through the Rove\/Cheney years for the foot shooting. The funny thing is that while the Tea Partier&#8217;s are decrying federal spending it seems they are really more in sync with the moral fundamentalism of bin Ladin than the awful &#8220;Libruls&#8221; in America who are dismantling the work of America&#8217;s <em>apostolic<\/em> Founding Fathers. Blame it on Jefferson and his gosh darned &#8220;pursuit of happiness&#8221; nonsense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>and to continue paraphrasing Pogo: shot ourselves in the foot. Ted Kopple&#8217;s explains it far more eloquently. I blame the Tea Party mentality that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,75,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3262"}],"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=3262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}