{"id":497,"date":"2009-02-16T16:04:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-16T20:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/02\/16\/what-do-you-think-of-the-gop-insurgency\/"},"modified":"2009-02-16T16:04:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-16T20:04:00","slug":"what-do-you-think-of-the-gop-insurgency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/02\/16\/what-do-you-think-of-the-gop-insurgency\/","title":{"rendered":"What do you think of the GOP &quot;insurgency&quot;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have to admit I&#8217;m a bit shocked, given the degree of the economic crisis unfolding around us, that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/02\/15\/us\/politics\/15cantor.html?_r=1&amp;hp\">the Republican Party has chosen to close ranks<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/comment\/columnists\/andrew_sullivan\/article5733405.ece\">declare war<\/a> on President Obama and the majority Democrats.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sharedcontent\/dws\/news\/localnews\/stories\/DN-sessions_06nat.ART.State.Edition1.4c9e094.html\">Texas Congressman Pete Sessions<\/a> likened the strategy to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/comment\/columnists\/andrew_sullivan\/article5733405.ece\">a jihadist &#8220;insurgency&#8221;<\/a>.  Rush himself wants the stimulus package <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/countyfair\/200902130013?show=1\">&#8220;and everything else [Obama&#8217;s] doing to fail&#8221;.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Really?  Hundreds of thousands of people are without jobs &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=100600029\">quite literally scared for their lives<\/a> &#8211; and the GOP is playing the party of &#8220;we want to see it get worse&#8221;?  Obviously, I&#8217;m no political consultant, but I do wonder if this is the recipe for success for a party wounded bigtime in two consecutive elections.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EVLEPDG082o\">Saturday Night Live&#8217;s already on to it.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The North Country&#8217;s only Republican in Washington, Congressman John McHugh, may not have reached the rhetorical extremes of Rush, but <a href=\"http:\/\/mchugh.house.gov\/News\/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=111623\">the explanation of his &#8220;no&#8221; vote on the stimulus package<\/a> was very harsh and in harmony with his party&#8217;s leaders.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m really curious: what do you think?  Is this the right way for the GOP?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have to admit I&#8217;m a bit shocked, given the degree of the economic crisis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"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\/497"}],"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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}