{"id":4646,"date":"2010-04-07T12:40:57","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T17:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=4646"},"modified":"2010-04-07T12:40:57","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T17:40:57","slug":"in-defense-of-the-perpetual-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/4646\/in-defense-of-the-perpetual-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"In Defense of the Perpetual Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Podhoretz pens a spirited defense of sharp-elbowed partisan politics in his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commentarymagazine.com\/viewarticle.cfm\/the-purposes-of-political-combat-15399?page=all\" target=\"_blank\">piece for <em>Commentary<\/em><\/a> today.\u00a0 After noting that treating politics as war helps to avoid war itself, Podhoretz crystallizes President Barack Obama\u2019s knee-jerk reaction to claim that \u201cthe time for talk is over\u201d whenever he hears criticism.\u00a0 For President Obama, politics is talking; governing is doing.<\/p>\n<p>The problem for Obama, as Podhoretz points out, is that Republicans in Congress and members of the Tea Party movement agree: the time to engage Democrats as honest partners in public policy is long past gone.\u00a0 The time for organizing and campaigning against their Statist agenda is now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Podhoretz pens a spirited defense of sharp-elbowed partisan politics in his piece for Commentary today.\u00a0 After noting that treating politics as war helps to avoid war itself, Podhoretz crystallizes President Barack Obama\u2019s knee-jerk reaction to claim that \u201cthe time for talk is over\u201d whenever he hears criticism.\u00a0 For President Obama, politics is talking; governing [&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":[143,1076,1077,28],"class_list":["post-4646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-partisan","tag-politics","tag-tea-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4646","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=4646"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4649,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4646\/revisions\/4649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}