{"id":2960,"date":"2010-01-04T16:25:36","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T21:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=2960"},"modified":"2010-01-04T16:46:37","modified_gmt":"2010-01-04T21:46:37","slug":"e-j-dionne-recommendation-to-democrats-commit-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/2960\/e-j-dionne-recommendation-to-democrats-commit-suicide\/","title":{"rendered":"E.J. Dionne’s Recommendation to Democrats: Commit Suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"

When asked to identify a leftist counterpart to the wit and wisdom of conservative commentator George Will, liberals commonly cite The Washington Post’s<\/em> E.J. Dionne, Jr.<\/p>\n

Frankly, that’s a bit like a D.C.-area baseball fan offering the Washington Nationals as a counterpart to the New York Yankees, as confirmed again by today’s commentary from Dionne<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In it, Dionne counsels a veritable suicide strategy for Democrats hoping to avoid a landslide defeat in November’s 2010 Congressional elections.\u00a0 In the face of poll after poll demonstrating widespread public opposition to ObamaCare<\/a>, Dionne advises Democrats to trumpet its virtues.\u00a0 He apparently remains blissfully oblivious to the fact that the more people learn about ObamaCare, the less they like it.\u00a0 Since Obama demanded legislation before the August Congressional recess, the public has swung<\/a> from narrow approval to wide disapproval, yet he advises that Democrats tell them more?\u00a0 Dionne subsequently argues, presumably with a straight face, that Democrats should utilize proposed carbon cap-and-tax legislation in their effort to gain electoral momentum.\u00a0 As is the case with ObamaCare, however, Dionne’s recommendation flies in the face of public skepticism and opposition<\/a> toward this costly bill<\/a> that will raise utility costs for everyday consumers, cripple businesses struggling in a weak economy and surrender additional American sovereignty to United Nations-style climate regulation.<\/p>\n

Those in the legal profession often advise against interrupting opposing attorneys who are dooming their own cases.\u00a0 One suspects that Republicans are similarly in no hurry to interrupt Dionne’s advice to Democrats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When asked to identify a leftist counterpart to the wit and wisdom of conservative commentator George Will, liberals commonly cite The Washington Post’s E.J. Dionne, Jr. Frankly, that’s a bit like a D.C.-area baseball fan offering the Washington Nationals as a counterpart to the New York Yankees, as confirmed again by today’s commentary from Dionne. […]<\/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":[26,84,443,205,77,465,111,35,36],"class_list":["post-2960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-climate-change","tag-congress","tag-copenhagen","tag-global-warming","tag-harry-reid","tag-health-care-reform","tag-nancy-pelosi","tag-obamacare","tag-pelosi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2960","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=2960"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2968,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2960\/revisions\/2968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}