{"id":11841,"date":"2020-03-06T15:33:50","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T20:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11841"},"modified":"2020-03-06T15:33:50","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T20:33:50","slug":"quote-for-the-day-223","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11841","title":{"rendered":"Quote for the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Warren\u2019s policies were way to the left, her earlier debacles (like the DNA test) revealed terrible political judgment, and her classic persona as a <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">know-it-all Harvard professor<\/span> with a plan for everything was almost identical to that of every earnest Democratic candidate who has lost in the last few decades.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/2020\/03\/andrew-sullivan-democrats-are-not-in-disarray.html?utm_source=flipboard.com&#038;utm_medium=social_acct&#038;utm_campaign=feed-part\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Andrew Sullivan<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s true, but actually irrelevant, that Warren is well left-of-center; after all, every presidential initiative has to pass through the filter of committees <i>ad nauseum<\/i>, the House of Representatives, and the Senate.  Have we forgotten, in the Trump era, that the president doesn&#8217;t merely issue decrees?  That there is a lengthy legislative process before an idea becomes a law, and that the process inevitably waters-down radicalism toward the mean acceptable to a majority?<\/p>\n<p>Where Warren shines is where it counts most &#8212; in brains and character.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warren\u2019s policies were way to the left, her earlier debacles (like the DNA test) revealed terrible political judgment, and her classic persona as a know-it-all Harvard professor with a plan for everything was almost identical to that of every earnest &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11841\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11841"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11841"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11843,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11841\/revisions\/11843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}