{"id":1211,"date":"2015-06-03T07:49:23","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T11:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=1211"},"modified":"2015-06-03T07:49:23","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T11:49:23","slug":"quote-for-the-day-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=1211","title":{"rendered":"Quote for the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Republicans have become a radical insurgency &#8212; ideologically extreme, contemptuous of the inherited policy regime, scornful of compromise, unpersuaded by conventional understanding of facts, evidence, and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of their political opposition.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/wonkblog\/wp\/2015\/06\/02\/this-astonishing-chart-shows-how-republicans-are-an-endangered-species\/\" target=\"_blank\">Christopher Ingraham<\/a>, in the Washington Post<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As I&#8217;ve been saying for years now, the Republicans are no longer &#8216;conservatives&#8217; in any meaningful sense of the word; they are nihilistic vandals.  The disgrace is that the party leadership, who should know better, whore themselves so readily to that base.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans have become a radical insurgency &#8212; ideologically extreme, contemptuous of the inherited policy regime, scornful of compromise, unpersuaded by conventional understanding of facts, evidence, and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of their political opposition. Christopher Ingraham, in the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=1211\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211"}],"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=1211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1212,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211\/revisions\/1212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}