{"id":4063,"date":"2010-03-03T00:05:38","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T05:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=4063"},"modified":"2010-03-03T10:53:46","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T15:53:46","slug":"obama-gives-new-meaning-to-the-term-bunker-mentality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/4063\/obama-gives-new-meaning-to-the-term-bunker-mentality\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Gives New Meaning to the Term &#8220;Bunker Mentality&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ordinarily, the term \u201cbunker mentality\u201d refers to an individual or group so cut off from outside opinion that they view any dissent as a threat to power.\u00a0 The Obama White House is acting the part in its <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.abcnews.com\/politicalpunch\/2010\/03\/obama-democrats-will-use-reconciliation-to-pass-senate-health-care-bill.html \" target=\"_blank\">call for congressional Democrats to exercise the so-called \u201cnuclear option\u201d<\/a> and pass health care \u201creform\u201d through the Reconciliation process, public opinion polls be damned.\u00a0 But if the president launches legislative nukes at his opponents and the American people (but I repeat myself), and then retreats back into his publicly financed bunker, how long will it be until he realizes he has to live with the fallout?\u00a0 Better yet, will his agenda be so radioactive that only the most suicidal Democrats will follow him back out into the public square?<\/p>\n<p>H\/T: Jake Tapper at ABC News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ordinarily, the term \u201cbunker mentality\u201d refers to an individual or group so cut off from outside opinion that they view any dissent as a threat to power.\u00a0 The Obama White House is acting the part in its call for congressional Democrats to exercise the so-called \u201cnuclear option\u201d and pass health care \u201creform\u201d through the Reconciliation [&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":[143,506,465],"class_list":["post-4063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-democrats","tag-health-care-reform"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4063","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=4063"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4068,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4063\/revisions\/4068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}