{"id":47,"date":"2006-11-13T16:43:26","date_gmt":"2006-11-13T20:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/13\/bipartisanship-my-foot\/"},"modified":"2007-02-06T09:19:46","modified_gmt":"2007-02-06T13:19:46","slug":"bipartisanship-my-foot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=47","title":{"rendered":"Bipartisanship my foot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To celebrate the new spirit of bipartisanship, the Democrats have announced that they will <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/11\/09\/AR2006110901185.html\" target=\"_blank\">block the President&#8217;s nomination of John Bolton<\/a> to the UN post he&#8217;s occupied for 15 months. All of this bluster while the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/15651915\" target=\"_blank\">President is meeting with\u00c2\u00a0Senate Democrat leaders<\/a> where Harry Reid says (apparently talking through his hat) &#8220;The only way to move forward is through bipartisanship and openness&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>So this is the definition of bipartisanship? As long as we do everything the way\u00c2\u00a0the Democrats want it done, we&#8217;re &#8220;cooperating&#8221;. The next two years are going to be a bawl-fest.\u00c2\u00a0I can&#8217;t see the President caving on anything\u00c2\u00a0&#8211; I could be wrong. He&#8217;s had his fingers bitten during the last few rounds of &#8220;bipartisanship&#8221;, I really hope he&#8217;s learned his lesson.<\/p>\n<p>Edited to add; Michele Malkin is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michellemalkin.com\/mt\/oct05-tb.cgi\/5703\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Blogging for Bolton&#8221;<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0. Word on the street is that <a href=\"http:\/\/voinovich.senate.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Voinovich<\/a> has changed his mind and will support Bolton&#8217;s nomination. I haven&#8217;t been able to confirm that yet, but I&#8217;ll keep trying. We need pressure applied to the lamest duck of all &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/chafee.senate.gov\/public\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lincoln Chaffee<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To celebrate the new spirit of bipartisanship, the Democrats have announced that they will block the &hellip; <a title=\"Bipartisanship my foot\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=47\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bipartisanship my foot<\/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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","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=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}