{"id":358,"date":"2007-05-24T18:50:18","date_gmt":"2007-05-24T22:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/05\/24\/keeping-pressure-on-the-democrats\/"},"modified":"2007-05-24T18:50:18","modified_gmt":"2007-05-24T22:50:18","slug":"keeping-pressure-on-the-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/05\/24\/keeping-pressure-on-the-democrats\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping Pressure on the Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Poll Shows Opposition to Iraq War at All Time High”<\/strong> – that’s the headline<\/a> at NYTimes.com, at the moment.\u00c2\u00a0 And yet we have the Democratic leadership caving<\/a> to the White House on the matter of withdrawal deadlines.\u00c2\u00a0 I know that it takes a while to get over being the minority party, but it’s about @)(@!@! time the Democrats shake it off and start delivering.\u00c2\u00a0 And I don’t want to hear a goddamn thing about being afraid that anyone will look like they’re not “supporting the troops.”<\/p>\n

No one with two brain cells to rub together can make a cogent argument for the proposition that setting a hard withdrawal date is somehow failing to “support the troops.”\u00c2\u00a0 Sure, you can say that it’s failing to support the President, the fantasies of PNAC, or the bloodlust of the remaining sliver of the population that supports President Bush.\u00c2\u00a0 But it is NOT failing to “support the troops” (if you need examples of failing to support the troops, take a look at the Bush budget position on military pay or veterans benefits).\u00c2\u00a0 The Democratic leadership needs to start acting as if they understand this reality, and if they don’t, they’ll get absolutely no sympathy (or contributions or support) from me when they start paying a political price for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Poll Shows Opposition to Iraq War at All Time High” – that’s the headline at NYTimes.com, at the moment.\u00c2\u00a0 And yet we have the Democratic leadership caving to the White House on the matter of withdrawal deadlines.\u00c2\u00a0 I know that it takes a while to get over being the minority party, but it’s about @)(@!@! […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}