{"id":3262,"date":"2010-01-19T19:22:54","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T00:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=3262"},"modified":"2010-01-19T19:22:54","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T00:22:54","slug":"who-are-these-guys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/3262\/who-are-these-guys\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Are These Guys?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the movie <em>Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid<\/em>, Butch keeps asking about their relentless pursuers, \u201cWho are those guys?\u201d\u00a0 With President Barack Obama\u2019s approval ratings plummeting, a supposedly \u201csafe\u201d Senate seat in danger, and health care \u201creform\u201d on the ropes, the same question could be asked about the so-called White House strategists.\u00a0 In the wake of a national and state-specific repudiation of President Obama and his policies, his advisors are promising defiance, not conciliation.<\/p>\n<p>According to <em>Politico<\/em>, the real lesson to learn from Scott Brown\u2019s surging popularity is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0110\/31629.htm \" target=\"_blank\">voter frustration with the lack of progress<\/a> Democrats have made on Obama\u2019s agenda.\u00a0 Huh?\u00a0 Let them explain.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But the president\u2019s advisers plan to spin it as a validation of the underdog arguments that fueled Obama\u2019s insurgent candidacy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe painstaking campaign for change over two years in 2007 and 2008 has become a painstaking effort in the White House, too,\u201d the official said. \u201cThe old habits of Washington aren\u2019t going away easy.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More likely is that the old hacks practicing The Chicago Way are doing the only thing they know how to do \u2013 fight like hell regardless of the reality.\u00a0 Butch and Sundance made a similar decision at the end of their lives (and the movie).\u00a0 How did that work out for them?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Butch keeps asking about their relentless pursuers, \u201cWho are those guys?\u201d\u00a0 With President Barack Obama\u2019s approval ratings plummeting, a supposedly \u201csafe\u201d Senate seat in danger, and health care \u201creform\u201d on the ropes, the same question could be asked about the so-called White House strategists.\u00a0 In the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[143,757,725,758],"class_list":["post-3262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-butch-cassidy","tag-scott-brown","tag-sundance-kid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3262","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3262"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3270,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3262\/revisions\/3270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}