{"id":5480,"date":"2010-05-27T13:39:22","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T17:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=5480"},"modified":"2010-05-27T14:27:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T18:27:00","slug":"are-americans-pro-effective-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/5480\/are-americans-pro-effective-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Americans Pro-(Effective) Government?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That\u2019s the point made by <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704717004575268523673781674.html\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Henninger in today\u2019s <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I would argue that the Reform wave building in the land is not antigovernment, but<em> pro-<\/em>government. When people call themselves Americans, Californians, New Yorkers, Illinoisans, Texans or, yes, New Jerseyans, they aren&#8217;t just talking about a place name, but a fought-for legal entity with a grand political history. Anger at Albany, Sacramento, Springfield, Trenton and Washington, D.C., isn&#8217;t antigovernment. It&#8217;s rightful rage at years of misgovernance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think Henninger\u2019s argument is the best description of the anger roiling supporters and critics of the Obama Administration\u2019s handling of the Gulf Oil Spill.\u00a0 It may very be that there are limited options for \u201cplugging the hole,\u201d but the fact remains that people expect leaders to show they know how to prioritize problems, and work towards a solution.\u00a0 Even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ObrZwCVKR-c\" target=\"_blank\">James Carville is apoplectic<\/a> at Obama\u2019s seeming inability to do either during this crisis.<\/p>\n<p>For the president who promised competence, we\u2019re getting an awful lot of failing grades in Leadership 101.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That\u2019s the point made by Daniel Henninger in today\u2019s Wall Street Journal. I would argue that the Reform wave building in the land is not antigovernment, but pro-government. When people call themselves Americans, Californians, New Yorkers, Illinoisans, Texans or, yes, New Jerseyans, they aren&#8217;t just talking about a place name, but a fought-for legal entity [&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":[143,1320,775,1319,742],"class_list":["post-5480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-gulf-oil-spill","tag-james-carville","tag-leadership","tag-limited-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5480","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=5480"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5486,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5480\/revisions\/5486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}