{"id":3551,"date":"2011-02-16T10:45:40","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T15:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3551"},"modified":"2011-02-16T10:53:48","modified_gmt":"2011-02-16T15:53:48","slug":"find-out-what-grant-drinks-and-send-it-to-my-other-commanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3551","title":{"rendered":"Find out what Grant drinks and send it to my other commanders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My gadfly critic, Vic, thinks Blogger <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/\">Andrew Sullivan<\/a> is &#8220;tendentious.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my reply to an email Vic sent me this morning in which one of Vic&#8217;s old law school classmates disses a Sullivan blog post I sent Vic.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Vic, <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve read Sullivan over the same period of time. I&#8217;m unimpressed with your classmates analysis. I&#8217;ve read much the same from other &#8220;conservatives.&#8221; What you sent me the other day is one of the reasons I find Sullivan worth reading. He doesn&#8217;t join one side of a cheering section and park his brains in the locker room as though all that was at stake was bragging rights for winning a sport&#8217;s contest. <\/p>\n<p>The people who read his Daily Dish regularly and find flaws in his logic and evidence get quoted on the Dish and he owns up to his errors. Show me a true &#8220;conservative&#8221; voice who does the same.  Until GOP leaders dissassociate themselves from the Limbaughs, Hannitys and Becks they cannot seriously lead us anywhere as a nation. There are a few new Republicans appearing on the edges who are untainted with the GOP&#8217;s partisan dip-shittery. Mitch Daniels, Gov. Christie, the ambassador from China who&#8217;s stepping down to make a run at the Presidency. They are the hope for the GOP&#8217;s future. FOX pundits are political pornographers and the pols who refuse to disavow them are video sluts. <\/p>\n<p>I do admire some GOP old timers like former Senators Rudman and Simpson. You might find Alan Simpson&#8217;s comments today on NPR interesting:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/itsallpolitics\/2011\/02\/16\/133801977\/alan-simpson-cut-entitlements-defense-dont-touch-help-to-poor\"> http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/itsallpolitics\/2011\/02\/16\/133801977\/alan-simpson-cut-entitlements-defense-dont-touch-help-to-poor<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Sure, Sullivan suffers from HIV but I&#8217;d paraphrase Lincoln when he commented on U.S. Grant&#8217;s alledged alcholism. If it [homosexuality] makes men like Sulivan think, then find out who he has sex with, and send them to the other pundits!&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Harry\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what the law school classmate had to say:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 7:40 AM, Vic wrote: <\/p>\n<p>From one of my law school classmates:  <\/p>\n<p>Sullivan is even more confusing for me than Arianna. Back in the 1990s he was basically a sensible person apart from the    &#8216;gay&#8217; situation. Someplace along the way BDS [Bush Derangement Syndrome]    became even more serious for him than HIV and his world became more unreal. I    can understand being critical of G.W. Bush and some of his policies but    Sullivan totally ignored the obvious deficiencies in Obama. <\/p>\n<p>L*****\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the post in question in which Sullivan defends his previous castigation of Obama for his lousy budget plan but then defends Obama as our best hope for rationale fiscal discipline.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8212;&#8211; Original Message &#8212;&#8211;<br \/>\nFrom: Vic<br \/>\nTo: L  (the law school classmate)<br \/>\nSent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 1:33 AM<br \/>\nSubject: The Defense Of Obama&#8217;s Fiscal Cowardice &#8211; The Daily Dish | By Andrew      Sullivan <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2011\/02\/the-defense-of-obamas-fiscal-cowardice.html\">http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2011\/02\/the-defense-of-obamas-fiscal-cowardice.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Vic <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My gadfly critic, Vic, thinks Blogger Andrew Sullivan is &#8220;tendentious.&#8221; Here&#8217;s my reply to an email Vic sent me this morning in which one&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,31,75,4,65,96,54],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3551"}],"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=3551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}