Kevin Drum at the Washington Monthly is one of my favorite bloggers. He mixes a little humor with outrage and perception for a good daily read. <\/p>\n
But I\u2019ve got to agree with Lean Left<\/a> on this one: Kevin doesn\u2019t like Robert Scheer<\/a> of the LA Times even though he is a conservative who has turned against Bush. He cites Scheer\u2019s column today<\/a> and this passage.<\/p>\n If they were true to their principles, moderate Republicans and consistent conservatives would be supporting John Kerry. Instead, their acquiescence to the reckless whims of George W. Bush marks a descent into that political abyss of opportunism where partisanship is everything and principle nothing.<\/p>\n How else to explain their cynical support for this shallow adventurer, a phony lightweight who has bled the Treasury dry while incompetently squandering the lives of young Americans in a needless imperial campaign?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n My reaction in his comments section:<\/p>\n “If this were written for a liberal blog or The Nation it would be fine.” <\/p>\n It’s fine that you don’t like Scheer, Kevin, but I find it curious that you expect less of bloggers than columnists. If we had a little more passion in daily papers instead of some of the bland “Oh-I’m-so-clever” blather, we might have an electorate a little more engaged.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kevin Drum at the Washington Monthly is one of my favorite bloggers. He mixes a little humor with outrage and perception for a good daily read. But I\u2019ve got to agree with Lean Left on this one: Kevin doesn\u2019t like Robert Scheer of the LA Times even though he is a conservative who has turned… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}