{"id":3753,"date":"2011-07-01T06:24:52","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T11:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3753"},"modified":"2017-02-28T14:49:26","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T19:49:26","slug":"no-joke-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3753","title":{"rendered":"No Joke 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, you&#8217;ve just seen what the Minnesota GOP (once one of the foremost RINO led Republican establishments) have done in Minnesota. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/plum-line\/post\/time-to-get-scared-about-debt-limit-armageddon\/2011\/03\/28\/AGx13LsH_blog.html?wprss=plum-line\">You ain&#8217;t seen nuthin yet!<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[W]hat scares me is the strong possibility that a large percentage of Republicans in Congress have come to believe their own rhetoric about the debt limit: that somehow it just doesn&#8217;t matter. That default is an acceptable option. What scares me is that epistemic closure among Republican leaders is very real, and very difficult to puncture.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, you&#8217;ve just seen what the Minnesota GOP (once one of the foremost RINO led Republican establishments) have done in Minnesota. You ain&#8217;t seen&#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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3753"}],"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=3753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20403,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3753\/revisions\/20403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}