{"id":8688,"date":"2011-02-17T18:59:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-17T23:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=8688"},"modified":"2011-02-17T18:59:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T23:59:00","slug":"tea-for-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/8688\/tea-for-three\/","title":{"rendered":"Tea for Three?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, CFIF Senior Fellow Troy Senik described the <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/54-state-of-affairs\/906-tea-for-two-richard-lugar-orrin-hatch-and-the-tea-partys-role-in-the-2012-elections\" target=\"_blank\">different approaches<\/a> Senators Richard Lugar (R-IN) and Orrin Hatch (R-UT) are taking toward their state\u2019s Tea Party movements.\u00a0 Hatch is accommodating while Lugar is dismissive.<\/p>\n<p>Count Senator Olympia Snowe (R-ME) in the Hatch camp.\u00a0 The Maine moderate is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.downeast.com\/the-tipping-point\/2011\/february\/snowe-tacks-right-party\" target=\"_blank\">raising the eyebrow<\/a> of one home-state commentator by giving a <a href=\"http:\/\/themaineteaparty.com\/forum\/topics\/response-to-questions-sent-to?id=2731571%3ATopic%3A58466&amp;page=2#comments\" target=\"_blank\">lengthy response<\/a> to questions about opposing Sharia law, repealing ObamaCare, increasing the debt ceiling, and Social Security spending, among other issues.<\/p>\n<p>Snowe should get credit for answering those questions publicly and in-depth.\u00a0 Time will tell if it helps her win another term in 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, CFIF Senior Fellow Troy Senik described the different approaches Senators Richard Lugar (R-IN) and Orrin Hatch (R-UT) are taking toward their state\u2019s Tea Party movements.\u00a0 Hatch is accommodating while Lugar is dismissive. Count Senator Olympia Snowe (R-ME) in the Hatch camp.\u00a0 The Maine moderate is raising the eyebrow of one home-state commentator by giving [&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":[841,2232,35,281,1426,2400,2399,1759,461,28],"class_list":["post-8688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2012-elections","tag-debt-ceiling","tag-obamacare","tag-olympia-snowe","tag-orrin-hatch","tag-primary","tag-richard-lugar","tag-sharia","tag-social-security","tag-tea-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8688","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=8688"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8692,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8688\/revisions\/8692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}