{"id":3808,"date":"2011-07-18T12:51:24","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T17:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3808"},"modified":"2011-07-18T12:52:09","modified_gmt":"2011-07-18T17:52:09","slug":"who-gets-the-blame-in-2012-if-america-grinds-to-a-halt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3808","title":{"rendered":"Who gets the blame in 2012 &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8230;if America grinds to a halt?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For my buddy who desperately wants the blame to fall on Obama I sadly have to concur with <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com\/2011\/07\/if-america-defaults-who-gets-the-blame.html\">this analysis<\/a> from Andrew Sullivan&#8217;s blog.<\/p>\n<p>I recall learning that Richard Nixon tried to convince Hanoi in the death throes of Vietnam that he was a madman who would wreak havoc on the country rather than give in. That was play acting. It sure looks to me as though today&#8217;s Republican Party is following the same tactic but without the play acting. Maybe I should only blame Obama for thinking there was something behind the GOP other than paranoia and bombast. Afterall he&#8217;s a young fellow and hasn&#8217;t spent the past twenty years watching the wingnuts take over the party like I have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;if America grinds to a halt? For my buddy who desperately wants the blame to fall on Obama I sadly have to concur with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,31,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3808"}],"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=3808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}