{"id":8760,"date":"2011-02-24T18:13:56","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T23:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=8760"},"modified":"2011-02-24T18:13:56","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T23:13:56","slug":"we-had-an-election-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/8760\/we-had-an-election-stupid\/","title":{"rendered":"We Had an Election, Stupid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe Wisconsin Democrats need Ragin\u2019 Cajun Jim Carville to explain the concept that elections have consequences.\u00a0 It wouldn\u2019t be the first time Carville <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bWR7Kt-HQ44\" target=\"_blank\">unleashed on members of his own party<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But perhaps Ed Morrissey will do as a substitute with his cool reasoning about the <a href=\"http:\/\/theweek.com\/bullpen\/column\/212386\/the-real-threat-to-democracy-in-wisconsin\/1\" target=\"_blank\">proper way to handle a campaign defeat<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If Republicans overreached with their budget-repair bill and unfairly restricted the rights of unions, then let Democrats go on record opposing the bill and make it the centerpiece of the next legislative election in Wisconsin. Under the circumstances, though, the Democrats who have tried to hijack democracy in order to dictate terms should be the ones who fear the next election the most.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The longer Wisconsin Senate Democrats delay action on legislative business, the more authority they lose to negotiate on any other issue this session.\u00a0 They also shouldn&#8217;t forget the lesson they&#8217;re teaching majority Republicans whenever they do return: lock the doors and monitor the whereabouts of every quorum-busting Democrat to make sure they don&#8217;t pull this stunt again.<\/p>\n<p>Is that really the precedent Wisconsin Democrats want to establish?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe Wisconsin Democrats need Ragin\u2019 Cajun Jim Carville to explain the concept that elections have consequences.\u00a0 It wouldn\u2019t be the first time Carville unleashed on members of his own party. But perhaps Ed Morrissey will do as a substitute with his cool reasoning about the proper way to handle a campaign defeat: If Republicans overreached [&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":[1685,2432,775,2412,419,1500],"class_list":["post-8760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-democrat","tag-ed-morrissey","tag-james-carville","tag-scott-walker","tag-unions","tag-wisconsin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8760","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=8760"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8763,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8760\/revisions\/8763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}