{"id":784,"date":"2009-09-23T17:51:18","date_gmt":"2009-09-23T21:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=784"},"modified":"2009-09-23T17:55:01","modified_gmt":"2009-09-23T21:55:01","slug":"thomas-frank-cant-see-as-far-as-his-own-backyard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/784\/thomas-frank-cant-see-as-far-as-his-own-backyard\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Frank Can’t See As Far As His Own Backyard?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In his weekly descent into leftist frivolousness today, Wall Street Journal<\/em> token columnist Thomas Frank argues<\/a> that Democrats have remained far too…\u00a0 get this…\u00a0 “civil” in contemporary political debate.\u00a0 Frank absurdly claims that in response to conservative activism, Democrats “pine for civility, pretending that the argument comes down to the scary rhetoric issuing from the right.”<\/p>\n

On what planet is he living?\u00a0 As noted by Tony Blankley in his most recent commentary<\/a>, Democrats have met citizen activism by labeling them “evil” (Senator Harry Reid), “un-American” (House Minority Leader Steny Hoyer), “racist” (Jimmy Carter)\u00a0 and accusing them of employing “Nazi” tactics (House Speaker Nancy Pelosi).\u00a0 In contrast, Republican leaders have maintained a professional, restrained, rational tone, as illustrated by Senators Mitch McConnell and Jon Kyl, and Representatives Paul Ryan and Eric Cantor.\u00a0 Frank proceeds to unfurl his usual litany of anti-capitalist tirades and bogeymen, but that’s nothing new.\u00a0 Asserting that Democrat leaders have somehow taken the rhetorical high road, however, is remarkably silly even for him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In his weekly descent into leftist frivolousness today, Wall Street Journal token columnist Thomas Frank argues that Democrats have remained far too…\u00a0 get this…\u00a0 “civil” in contemporary political debate.\u00a0 Frank absurdly claims that in response to conservative activism, Democrats “pine for civility, pretending that the argument comes down to the scary rhetoric issuing from the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[77,12,140,111,28],"class_list":["post-784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-harry-reid","tag-health-care","tag-jimmy-carter","tag-nancy-pelosi","tag-tea-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=784"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":786,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions\/786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}