{"id":8763,"date":"2018-08-27T07:12:11","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T11:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=8763"},"modified":"2018-08-27T07:12:11","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T11:12:11","slug":"quote-for-the-day-131","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=8763","title":{"rendered":"Quote for the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>The absolutism and radicalism of today\u2019s Republican Party is the biggest threat to the country that McCain served and loved.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/08\/26\/opinion\/john-mccain-republican-party-trump.html?action=click&#038;module=Opinion&#038;pgtype=Homepage\" target=\"_blank\">David Leonhardt<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Leonhardt is right: the Republican Party has become no more than a pack of nihilist vandals in thrall to a corrupt bully &#8212; and it is the gravest threat the country faces.<\/p>\n<p>Though I am saddened by the failure of the Republican Party to step up and show a scintilla of backbone, I am optimistic overall.  As I predicted after the election, the courts have held fast and, excepting FOX News, the media have been no less than heroic.  I believe the American people are sound, and that we&#8217;re going to see a historic bloodletting in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The absolutism and radicalism of today\u2019s Republican Party is the biggest threat to the country that McCain served and loved. David Leonhardt Leonhardt is right: the Republican Party has become no more than a pack of nihilist vandals in thrall &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=8763\">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\/8763"}],"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=8763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8764,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8763\/revisions\/8764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}