{"id":28055,"date":"2011-12-23T12:50:24","date_gmt":"2011-12-23T16:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=28055"},"modified":"2011-12-23T12:50:24","modified_gmt":"2011-12-23T16:50:24","slug":"the-difference-a-party-makes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28055","title":{"rendered":"The difference a party makes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Somehow, I thought when I read this from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/plum-line\/post\/dems-win-one-as-gop-caves\/2011\/12\/22\/gIQAojW4BP_blog.html\">Washington Post<\/a>, this wouldn&#8217;t have been characterized as &#8220;caves&#8221; if the roles had been reversed;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/WaPo-GOP-caves.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/WaPo-GOP-caves.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"WaPo GOP caves\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28056\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And then I remembered when the Democrats &#8220;caved&#8221; last year to Republicans in the battle to extend the Bush tax cuts (and\/or prevent the Obama tax hike) the Washington Post called it a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21568\">Landmark Tax Bill<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Funny how much difference a year makes, huh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somehow, I thought when I read this from the Washington Post, this wouldn&#8217;t have been characterized &hellip; <a title=\"The difference a party makes\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28055\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The difference a party makes<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}