{"id":4466,"date":"2010-03-27T16:28:37","date_gmt":"2010-03-27T21:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=4466"},"modified":"2010-03-27T16:28:37","modified_gmt":"2010-03-27T21:28:37","slug":"dems-still-cruisin-for-a-bruisin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/4466\/dems-still-cruisin-for-a-bruisin\/","title":{"rendered":"Dems Still Cruisin&#8217; for a Bruisin&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Growing up, my mother used to warn my brother and me about an impending stroke of discipline with the phrase, \u201cYou\u2019re cruisin\u2019 for a bruisin\u2019.\u201d\u00a0 Most of the time, we got the hint.\u00a0 Consequently, we did not grow up to be Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>And so I marvel at the continued tone-deafness of Democratic leaders, who are now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/politics_nation\/2010\/03\/as_debate_shifts_from_washingt.html \" target=\"_blank\">circulating talking point packets<\/a> to congressional members heading home for the Easter break.\u00a0 Apparently, the town hall meetings went so well last year, that more face-to-face discussions about health care are suggested.\u00a0 Hard to be believe, but these people are both cynical <em>and<\/em> crazy.\u00a0 How long will it be before a Democratic congressman\u2019s constituents tar and feather the poor bird?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Growing up, my mother used to warn my brother and me about an impending stroke of discipline with the phrase, \u201cYou\u2019re cruisin\u2019 for a bruisin\u2019.\u201d\u00a0 Most of the time, we got the hint.\u00a0 Consequently, we did not grow up to be Democrats. And so I marvel at the continued tone-deafness of Democratic leaders, who are [&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":[1012,506,465],"class_list":["post-4466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-cynicism","tag-democrats","tag-health-care-reform"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4466","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=4466"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4470,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4466\/revisions\/4470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}