{"id":3756,"date":"2011-07-01T12:57:14","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T17:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3756"},"modified":"2011-07-01T13:01:52","modified_gmt":"2011-07-01T18:01:52","slug":"im-all-diapered-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3756","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m all diapered up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Re: the Post <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3753\">&#8220;No Joke 2&#8221;<\/a> a friend emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Oh, Harry.  Keep your diapers on.  The people will decide whether  what their politicians are doing, should have been done. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Its fair to say that this friend expresses no opinion on whether Bush&#8217;s and Obama&#8217;s vast spending programs prevented a mega depression from descending upon the world. Its also probably fair to say that this friend would regard such an event as a corrective that we would ultimately be grateful for.<\/p>\n<p>I, on the other hand, incline to the belief that panic rarely leads to anything very positive.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, I take the suggestion that <em>if a panic and depression ensues<\/em> it will be OK because the voters will be able to punish the cretins who brought it about. <\/p>\n<p>I might even excuse the Republicans myself if I thought their leaders truly felt the debt ceiling and the world&#8217;s confidence in our honoring our debts wasn&#8217;t all that important in the economic scheme of things. I don&#8217;t, however, believe that anyone other than a crackpot who makes money curing homosexuality, like Michelle Bachman, really believes such nonsense. I simply see party soldiers lining up to say &#8220;me to&#8221; for fear of being called names by the likes of Grover Norquist, Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.<\/p>\n<p>Has anyone written a <strong>Profiles in Cravenness<\/strong>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Re: the Post &#8220;No Joke 2&#8221; a friend emails: Oh, Harry. Keep your diapers on. The people will decide whether what their politicians are&#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\/3756"}],"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=3756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}