{"id":7973,"date":"2009-02-19T05:39:06","date_gmt":"2009-02-19T10:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=7973"},"modified":"2009-02-19T05:39:06","modified_gmt":"2009-02-19T10:39:06","slug":"marcus-missing-the-point-completely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=7973","title":{"rendered":"Marcus missing the point completely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/02\/17\/AR2009021702592.html?hpid=opinionsbox1\">Washington Post<\/a>&#8216;s Ruth Marcus tries to explain the near victory the Republican Party scored in the recent over the stimulus bill last week by chalking it up to &#8220;peer pressure&#8221;. To recap, the Republicans attracted six Democrats while losing only three Republicans to the Democrats;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Still, the ability of House Republicans to maintain their united front &#8212; twice &#8212; came as an unpleasant shock to the White House. Even after the first rebuff, the administration anticipated 20 to 30 Republican defections.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the vote demonstrated that everything you need to know about Congress you learned in middle school: Peer pressure works wonders. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>She misses the whole point completely &#8211; it wasn&#8217;t peer pressure at all. The whole point of contention is the definition of &#8220;compromise&#8221;. Neither the White House nor the Congressional Democrats attempted anything resembling compromise. Republicans didn&#8217;t bite. What divides Republicans and Democrats is IDEOLOGY not some stupid grade school game of gotcha. It&#8217;s not whose team you&#8217;re on, it&#8217;s what you believe. What kept Republicans together was their refusal to participate in Democrat patronage to unions and liberal strap hangers.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not your team versus my team, you silly clown of a woman. Marcus is the one playing at grade school antics. <\/p>\n<p>Regardless, I wrote this last night, so I screen shot the POS column she wrote in case she changes it by the time I post mine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/marcus-misses-point.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/marcus-misses-point-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"marcus-misses-point\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-7974\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Post&#8216;s Ruth Marcus tries to explain the near victory the Republican Party scored in the &hellip; <a title=\"Marcus missing the point completely\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=7973\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Marcus missing the point completely<\/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":[46,47,6,5,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-liberals-suck","category-media","category-politics","category-usual-suspects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7973","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=7973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}