{"id":3549,"date":"2011-02-14T17:48:11","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T22:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3549"},"modified":"2011-02-14T17:48:11","modified_gmt":"2011-02-14T22:48:11","slug":"more-moonies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3549","title":{"rendered":"More Moonies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2285017\/?from=rss\">From Slate:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>That&#8217;s four straight interviews in which the country&#8217;s three top Republicans\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthe speaker of the House and the GOP leaders in each chamber\u00e2\u20ac\u201dhave refused to condemn the spreading of lies about Obama&#8217;s faith and citizenship.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>These three men are confident enough in the personhood of fetuses to support banning abortion. They&#8217;re confident enough in the efficacy and justice of the U.S. health care system to block funding of the Affordable Care Act. They&#8217;re confident enough in Wall Street, despite the recklessness and bailouts of the last three years, to press for repeal of the Dodd-Frank financial regulation law. But ask them whether Obama is a Muslim or was born in the U.S., and suddenly they&#8217;re too humble to impose their beliefs on others. They can only describe &#8220;the facts as I understand them.&#8221; They can only speak &#8220;for me.&#8221; They can only &#8220;listen to the American people,&#8221; not &#8220;tell them what to think.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>These men aren&#8217;t leaders. They&#8217;re followers. To lead a party, much less a country, you have to be able to say no. You have to stand up to liars, lunatics, and dupes on your party&#8217;s fringe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Slate: That&#8217;s four straight interviews in which the country&#8217;s three top Republicans\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthe speaker of the House and the GOP leaders in each chamber\u00e2\u20ac\u201dhave&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gods-own-party","category-good-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=3549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}