{"id":286,"date":"2009-05-01T15:49:34","date_gmt":"2009-05-01T19:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2009\/05\/01\/what-are-the-gopers-smoking\/"},"modified":"2009-05-01T15:49:34","modified_gmt":"2009-05-01T19:49:34","slug":"what-are-the-gopers-smoking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2009\/05\/01\/what-are-the-gopers-smoking\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the GOPers Smoking?"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the GOP tries to find its voice, may we suggest they first reverse the Bush administration\u2019s rejection of reality.<\/p>\n

In this story<\/a> about the coming decision to replace Justice David Souter on the Supreme Court, we have Wendy Long of the Judicial Confirmation Network and a former clerk to Justice Clarence Thomas saying,<\/p>\n

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The current Supreme Court is a liberal, judicial activist court<\/em><\/strong>. \u2026 If Obama holds to his campaign promise to appoint a Justice who rules based on her own \u2018deepest values\u2019 and what’s in her own \u2018heart\u2019 \u2013 instead of what is in the Constitution and laws \u2014 he will be the first American President who has made lawlessness an explicit standard for Supreme Court Justices.\u201d  <\/em><\/strong>(emphasis added)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Let\u2019s forget that liberals have been losing most SCOTUS decisions to a 5-4 conservative majority.  But then to suggest that because Obama might consider life experiences, he therefore is looking for lawlessness as a standard for selecting a justice?<\/p>\n

Well, reality seems out of reach for GOPers.<\/p>\n

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The GOP obviously does not have much power in D.C. these days, but just like we helped ourselves by opposing the deficit-busting stimulus<\/strong><\/em>, opposing left-wing nominees like her is our path back to the majority,\u201d one Republican source said. (emphasis added)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I\u2019m almost starting to feel sorry for the party of Coolidge, Hoover and Nixon.  It\u2019s not that they\u2019re smoking something; they\u2019re eating their own shit.  That\u2019ll make you sick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As the GOP tries to find its voice, may we suggest they first reverse the Bush administration\u2019s rejection of reality. In this story about the coming decision to replace Justice David Souter on the Supreme Court, we have Wendy Long of the Judicial Confirmation Network and a former clerk to Justice Clarence Thomas saying, The… 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":[12,67],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286"}],"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=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}