{"id":436,"date":"2006-07-09T10:43:40","date_gmt":"2006-07-09T15:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=436"},"modified":"2006-07-25T18:01:39","modified_gmt":"2006-07-25T23:01:39","slug":"republican-and-democratic-civil-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=436","title":{"rendered":"Republican and Democratic Civil Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Sunday Trib had side by side stories about the civil wars going on in both the Republican and Democratic Parties.<\/p>\n<p>Long past are the days of Ronald Reagan&#8217;s &#8220;Big Tent&#8221; Republican party where people with many points of view were welcome. Today the most conservative Republican Congressman announced a party meeting to promote a completely non moderate agenda for the fall elections <a href=\"http:\/\/americaabroad.tpmcafe.com\/blog\/artappraiser\/2006\/jul\/08\/g_o_p_agenda_in_house_has_moderates_up_for_election_unhappy\">which will undermine the 35 remaining moderate Republicans in Congress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As for the Democrats they are torn over Howard Dean&#8217;s pursuit of the angriest Democrats and this threatens to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthsuperior.com\/mld\/duluthsuperior\/news\/nation\/14999882.htm\">undermine the Party&#8217;s slim chance of\u00c2\u00a0retaking one or the other branch of\u00c2\u00a0Congress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Its all very distressing for anyone who believes that there are answers in moderation and compromise.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Sunday Trib had side by side stories about the civil wars going on in both the Republican and Democratic Parties. Long past are&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,23,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436"}],"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=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}