{"id":1111,"date":"2012-11-08T09:17:03","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T15:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=1111"},"modified":"2012-11-08T09:17:03","modified_gmt":"2012-11-08T15:17:03","slug":"republican-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=1111","title":{"rendered":"REPUBLICAN LEADERSHIP  =  ? ? ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Republican Leadership Establishment is the equivalent of<\/p>\n<p>The Republican Wing of the Democrat Party.<\/p>\n<p>(statement based on a lot of things&#8212;the most recent being the Speaker of the House talking compromise with the &#8220;president&#8221; on raising taxes and cutting spending, as though that folly has worked in the past four years)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Republican definition of reaching across the aisle&#8212;&#8220;both sides compromise&#8221;\u00a0 (not working and won&#8217;t work now)<\/p>\n<p>Democrat definition of reaching across the aisle&#8212;&#8220;Republicans give in to Democrats&#8221;\u00a0 (working just fine and will continue)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I do not use all of his language, but I agree with Rush Limbaugh&#8217;s declaration several years ago, that the Republican Party should boldly be the party of\u00a0 &#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">NO<\/span>&#8221;\u00a0 at this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Republican Leadership Establishment is the equivalent of The Republican Wing of the Democrat Party. (statement based on a lot of things&#8212;the most recent being the Speaker of the House talking compromise with the &#8220;president&#8221; on raising taxes and cutting spending, as though that folly has worked in the past four years) &nbsp; Republican definition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-cultural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}