{"id":3560,"date":"2011-02-19T01:52:08","date_gmt":"2011-02-19T06:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3560"},"modified":"2011-02-19T02:15:48","modified_gmt":"2011-02-19T07:15:48","slug":"an-anti-tea-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3560","title":{"rendered":"An Anti-Tea Party?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve heard pundits argue whether the public is going to be sympathetic to Wisconsin&#8217;s public employee union protests or unsympathetic. Both sides make plausible arguments. I will only say that my initial reaction was that this was likely to be a new Tea Party of the left which could undo much of what Fox News&#8230;..sorry, I mean the Tea Party, did in the 2010 elections.<\/p>\n<p>Added to stories like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charter.net\/news\/read.php?rip_id=%3CD9LFF1E82%40news.ap.org%3E&#038;ps=1018\">this one<\/a> about the Republican Congress the GOP Congress might look like a group photo of 300 Dan Quayles standing in the glare of headlights come 2012.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Upping the ante in the budget faceoff, the Obama administration warned that workers who distribute Social Security benefits might be furloughed if congressional Republicans force cuts in government spending.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve heard pundits argue whether the public is going to be sympathetic to Wisconsin&#8217;s public employee union protests or unsympathetic. Both sides make plausible&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,84,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3560"}],"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=3560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}