{"id":8469,"date":"2018-07-14T06:16:25","date_gmt":"2018-07-14T10:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=8469"},"modified":"2018-07-14T06:16:25","modified_gmt":"2018-07-14T10:16:25","slug":"quote-for-the-day-123","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=8469","title":{"rendered":"Quote for the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Russian officials attacked American democracy in 2016, and the intelligence community has warned us that they\u2019re coming back for more. But Mr. Trump seems incapable of perceiving the threat, while Republicans in Congress spend their time fulminating not about the assault on American sovereignty, but about the private text messages of an F.B.I. agent investigating that attack.<\/p>\n<p>As Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein rightly said after announcing the indictment, in the face of such an assault, \u201cit\u2019s important for us to avoid thinking politically, as Republicans or Democrats, and instead to think patriotically as Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Good advice. If only Mr. Trump and his servile defenders in Congress would heed it.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/07\/13\/opinion\/editorials\/mueller-indictment-trump-russia-hacking.html?action=click&#038;pgtype=Homepage&#038;clickSource=story-heading&#038;module=opinion-c-col-left-region&#038;region=opinion-c-col-left-region&#038;WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Do your duty, Congress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian officials attacked American democracy in 2016, and the intelligence community has warned us that they\u2019re coming back for more. But Mr. Trump seems incapable of perceiving the threat, while Republicans in Congress spend their time fulminating not about the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=8469\">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\/8469"}],"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=8469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8470,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8469\/revisions\/8470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}