{"id":471,"date":"2009-02-05T13:54:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-05T17:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/02\/05\/a-test-for-baracks-conservative-allies\/"},"modified":"2009-02-05T13:54:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-05T17:54:00","slug":"a-test-for-baracks-conservative-allies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/02\/05\/a-test-for-baracks-conservative-allies\/","title":{"rendered":"A test for Barack&#8217;s conservative allies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcountrypublicradio.org\/news\/archive.php?id=12915\">David Sommerstein&#8217;s report on Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand&#8217;s shifting political views<\/a>, her aide describes Ms. Gillibrand as &#8220;a fiscal conservative.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The new junior Senator from New York is only one of a new generation of Democratic lawmakers who&#8217;ve risen from centrist or center-right districts.<\/p>\n<p>Think of them as red state Democrats, from Alaska, Nebraska, Virginia, and Wyoming.<\/p>\n<p>As President Obama fights to save his stimulus package, it&#8217;s these politicians he has to rally, not the Republicans across the aisle.<\/p>\n<p>Being a big-tent party is a blessing &#8212; you get the perks of leadership. <\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s also a curse, when you have to please leaders as diverse as Barbara Boxer and Ben Nelson.<\/p>\n<p>This is also one of the reasons that liberals were infuriated with the pick of Sen. Gillibrand.  The last thing they wanted was one more centrist shifting Congress&#8217;s center of gravity. <\/p>\n<p>If the stimulus package tanks, Mr. Obama will almost certainly have his own Party&#8217;s moderates to thank, for better or worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In David Sommerstein&#8217;s report on Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand&#8217;s shifting political views, her aide describes Ms. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}