{"id":3971,"date":"2009-05-16T13:28:40","date_gmt":"2009-05-16T20:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=3971"},"modified":"2009-05-16T13:28:40","modified_gmt":"2009-05-16T20:28:40","slug":"whither-the-two-parties-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2009\/05\/16\/whither-the-two-parties-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"whither the two parties forward?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In comparison with my handy\u00c2\u00a0image of the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2009\/03\/28\/the-face-of-the-republican-party-right-this-minute\/\">16 faces of the Republican Party Right this Minute<\/a>&#8220;, Time Magazine provides us with their flow-chart progressing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/politics\/article\/0,8599,1896588,00.html\">from Olympia Snowe to Rush Limbaugh<\/a>, Charlie Crist and Newt Gingrich\u00c2\u00a0next, John McCain and Sarah Palin, Jeb Bush and Mitt Romney.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think Cheney found his way on it.<\/p>\n<p>Meantime, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ordinary-gentlemen.com\/2009\/05\/secrets-and-substance\/\">time to worry about the future of the Democratic Party?<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(taken in\u00c2\u00a0total <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2009\/05\/how-deep-is-the-dems-bench.html\">from Andrew Sullivan&#8217;s blog<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><em>To me, Pelosi\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s <\/em><em>denial<\/em><em> (and accusation against the CIA) lays bare a deeper truth about the Democrats.\u00c2\u00a0 Without Obama they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d be nearly as big a mess as the Republicans.\u00c2\u00a0 Most of them are complicit in the Bush torture program and the wars.\u00c2\u00a0 The party is almost headless without Obama &#8211; led by the fickle and hardly inspiring Reid\/Pelosi duo.\u00c2\u00a0 After Obama, if conservatives learn anything over the next eight years &#8211; yes, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m predicting it will be eight &#8211; unless the Democrats get some sort of order and discipline and more importantly, some grander vision, then I think the GOP should have no trouble at all coming in and cleaning up.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The lackluster Reid \/ Pelosi pair.\u00c2\u00a0 As opposed to Frist \/ Hastert?\u00c2\u00a0 Lott \/ Hastert?\u00c2\u00a0 Dole\u00c2\u00a0\/ Gingrich?\u00c2\u00a0 Mitchell \/ Foley.\u00c2\u00a0 Now Mitchell \/ Foley &#8212; that one was one that\u00c2\u00a0ROCKED!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In comparison with my handy\u00c2\u00a0image of the &#8220;16 faces of the Republican Party Right this Minute&#8220;, Time Magazine provides us with their flow-chart progressing from Olympia Snowe to Rush Limbaugh, Charlie Crist and Newt Gingrich\u00c2\u00a0next, John McCain and Sarah Palin, Jeb Bush and Mitt Romney. I don&#8217;t think Cheney found his way on it. Meantime, [&hellip;]<\/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-3971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3971","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=3971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3972,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3971\/revisions\/3972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}