{"id":492,"date":"2006-08-09T16:28:12","date_gmt":"2006-08-09T20:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2006\/08\/09\/deconstructing_\/"},"modified":"2006-08-09T16:28:12","modified_gmt":"2006-08-09T20:28:12","slug":"deconstructing_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2006\/08\/09\/deconstructing_\/","title":{"rendered":"De-constructing Lamont-Lieberman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAll Things Considered\u201d just had E.J. Dionne and David Brooks, their regular commentators, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=5630769 \">discussing the Connecticut primary<\/a>.  Dionne says Lieberman\u2019s Sunday speech about his position on the Iraq War, given a month earlier, might have won him the election.  I agree.<\/p>\n<p>He also said the GOP charge that the election proves there\u2019s no room for moderates in the Democratic Party is absurd, unless you also agree that the defeat of the GOP incumbent Congressman Joe Schwarz in Michigan means there\u2019s no room for moderates in the Republican Party.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, he points out that calling someone a \u201cmoderate\u201d who supports the radical notion of a pre-emptive war in Iraq is also ironic, and I would say, at best.<\/p>\n<p>(The conversation will be available on NPR\u2019s web site around 7:30 p.m.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAll Things Considered\u201d just had E.J. Dionne and David Brooks, their regular commentators, discussing the Connecticut primary. Dionne says Lieberman\u2019s Sunday speech about his position on the Iraq War, given a month earlier, might have won him the election. I agree. He also said the GOP charge that the election proves there\u2019s no room for&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2006\/08\/09\/deconstructing_\/\">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\/492"}],"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=492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}