{"id":2938,"date":"2008-06-06T13:27:46","date_gmt":"2008-06-06T20:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/06\/06\/even-that-guy\/"},"modified":"2008-06-06T13:27:46","modified_gmt":"2008-06-06T20:27:46","slug":"even-that-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/06\/06\/even-that-guy\/","title":{"rendered":"Even that guy?"},"content":{"rendered":"

From The Rolling Stone<\/a>:
\nEven some Republicans are bewildered by the failure of Senate Democrats to stand up to the White House. “When you see a headline like ‘In The Senate, A White House Victory On Eavesdropping,’ something is wrong,” says Lincoln Chafee, a moderate Republican from Rhode Island who was ousted from the Senate in 2006 by voters who believed a Democratic majority would take on the Bush administration. “We threw out all these incumbents for a reason. But there’s been no discernible change in direction.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Two problems with saying “even Republicans” and linking\u00c2\u00a0that prhase\u00c2\u00a0with the name “Lincoln Chafee”.\u00c2\u00a0 First of all, Lincoln Chafee is no longer a Republican — he became an Independent\u00c2\u00a0sometime after losing that election, which I assume if he wants to be governor of Rhode Island now it is his if he wants it.\u00c2\u00a0 Secondly, even when he was a Republican, he was a Republican who was the very definition of the phrase “Exception to the Rule”.\u00c2\u00a0 To wit:<\/p>\n

When asked whether he felt that his loss may have helped the country by switching control of power in Congress, he replied: “To be honest, yes.”<\/em><\/p>\n

This is not really a comment on the issues raised, and the narrow issue that “even Republicans” might be dumb-founded by impotence of Democrats may well be right, but going perplunking about for an “Even Republican” or an “Even Democrat” is a matter that tends to throw partisan bias into light — along the lines of picking out the supposed responsible member of the party.\u00c2\u00a0 View the “Democrats for Bush” website for 2004 and see the glowing picture of Zell Miller.<\/p>\n

But I already made this remark during the 2006 elections<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the current election cycle, Republicans across the nation are dropping the “Republican” from their name.\u00c2\u00a0 Gordon Smith and Norm Coleman, for example.<\/p>\n

Partisan-wise, the Democrats m<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From The Rolling Stone: Even some Republicans are bewildered by the failure of Senate Democrats to stand up to the White House. “When you see a headline like ‘In The Senate, A White House Victory On Eavesdropping,’ something is wrong,” says Lincoln Chafee, a moderate Republican from Rhode Island who was ousted from the Senate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}