{"id":2185,"date":"2009-11-19T10:04:27","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T15:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=2185"},"modified":"2009-11-19T10:04:27","modified_gmt":"2009-11-19T15:04:27","slug":"can-e-j-dionne-count","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/2185\/can-e-j-dionne-count\/","title":{"rendered":"Can E.J. Dionne Count?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an exercise:\u00a0 ask a liberal to identify a single commentator from the left who rivals such conservative commentators as George Will or Charles Krauthammer.\u00a0 Their usual answer?\u00a0 <em>The Washington Post&#8217;s<\/em> E.J. Dionne, Jr.\u00a0 This is very revealing, because it appears that Dionne has difficulty counting, let alone rivaling his conservative counterparts in intellectual stature.<\/p>\n<p>In his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/11\/18\/AR2009111802696.html?wpisrc=newsletter&amp;wpisrc=newsletter&amp;wpisrc=newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">column today<\/a>, Dionne attempts to excoriate Senate Republicans for their obstructionism, including their alleged tendency to filibuster.\u00a0 In one passage, he states that, &#8220;the extra-constitutional filibuster is being used by the minority, with extraordinary success, to make the majority look foolish, ineffectual and incompetent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>No, Mr. Dionne, the Democrats are doing a splendid job of that themselves.\u00a0 But regardless, this commentary raises a larger question:\u00a0 can Dionne even count?\u00a0 After all, does he not realize that the Republicans don&#8217;t even possess the number of members sufficient to filibuster?<\/p>\n<p>Somebody send this man a calculator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an exercise:\u00a0 ask a liberal to identify a single commentator from the left who rivals such conservative commentators as George Will or Charles Krauthammer.\u00a0 Their usual answer?\u00a0 The Washington Post&#8217;s E.J. Dionne, Jr.\u00a0 This is very revealing, because it appears that Dionne has difficulty counting, let alone rivaling his conservative counterparts in intellectual stature. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[517,518,38],"class_list":["post-2185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-e-j-dionne","tag-filibuster","tag-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2188,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2185\/revisions\/2188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}