{"id":10490,"date":"2011-08-01T10:14:26","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T10:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/08\/01\/a-big-victory-for-the-tea-party\/"},"modified":"2011-08-01T10:14:26","modified_gmt":"2011-08-01T10:14:26","slug":"a-big-victory-for-the-tea-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/08\/01\/a-big-victory-for-the-tea-party\/","title":{"rendered":"A Big Victory for the Tea Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Call it <em>Schadenfreude<\/em>, but it was certainly a pleasure to wake up this morning to the gnashing of leftist teeth over last night&#39;s <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424053111903341404576480653492061150.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop\" target=\"_self\">Tea Party triumph<\/a>.&#0160; The howling of the lefties is as music to my ears.&#0160; In his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/08\/01\/opinion\/the-president-surrenders-on-debt-ceiling.html\" target=\"_self\">latest outburst<\/a>, Paul Krugman speaks of &quot;extortion.&quot;&#0160; Others speak of &#39;hostage-taking,&#39; &#39;terrorism,&#39; &#39;Taliban tactics,&#39;&#0160;&#39;arson.&#39; &#0160;One commentator likened the Tea Partiers to Hezbollah.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">This absurdly extremist rhetoric lets us know that for the Left this is a war.&#0160; But then how can we treat it as a civil debate?&#0160; They are lying about us blatantly and brazenly.&#0160; (Bernie Sanders, the Vermont socialist said on C-Span the other night that Republicans want to destroy Social Security.)&#0160; So we must tell the truth about them and gird our loins for the next round.&#0160; Meanwhile a bit of celebration is in order.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Call it Schadenfreude, but it was certainly a pleasure to wake up this morning to the gnashing of leftist teeth over last night&#39;s Tea Party triumph.&#0160; The howling of the lefties is as music to my ears.&#0160; In his latest outburst, Paul Krugman speaks of &quot;extortion.&quot;&#0160; Others speak of &#39;hostage-taking,&#39; &#39;terrorism,&#39; &#39;Taliban tactics,&#39;&#0160;&#39;arson.&#39; &#0160;One commentator &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/08\/01\/a-big-victory-for-the-tea-party\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Big Victory for the Tea Party&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}