{"id":8895,"date":"2018-09-18T13:45:49","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T17:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=8895"},"modified":"2018-09-18T13:45:49","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T17:45:49","slug":"quote-for-the-day-135","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=8895","title":{"rendered":"Quote for the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Remember, Republicans wouldn\u2019t even give President Barack Obama\u2019s nominee a hearing, claiming that because Obama was late in his second term the process should wait, leaving a court seat vacant for more than a year, to let voters weigh in. Now they\u2019re trying to ram Kavanaugh through in a matter of weeks, despite incomplete vetting of his legal record and major questions about his personal history.<\/p>\n<p>Why the rush? Because there\u2019s a chance the G.O.P. will lose the Senate soon.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/09\/17\/opinion\/brett-kavanaugh-republicans-bad-faith.html?action=click&#038;module=Opinion&#038;pgtype=Homepage\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Krugman<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Krugman&#8217;s column is not, as you might suppose, concerned primarily with the now-disordered state of Brett Kavanaugh&#8217;s nomination to the Supreme Court; it&#8217;s about, rather, the consistent bad faith exhibited by the Republican Party, and it&#8217;s worth reading.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll add an aside concerning Kavanaugh and demographics, however: Much of the commentary concerning this event remarks upon the likely effect of these allegations upon <i>college-educated white women<\/i>.  Why?<\/p>\n<p>Are non-college-educated women, and minority women, indifferent to sexual assault?  Is it a commonplace that they are simply expected to endure?  Why is there a widespread expectation that their votes won&#8217;t be influenced?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember, Republicans wouldn\u2019t even give President Barack Obama\u2019s nominee a hearing, claiming that because Obama was late in his second term the process should wait, leaving a court seat vacant for more than a year, to let voters weigh in. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=8895\">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\/8895"}],"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=8895"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8898,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8895\/revisions\/8898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}