{"id":9129,"date":"2018-11-02T07:17:38","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T11:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=9129"},"modified":"2018-11-02T07:26:58","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T11:26:58","slug":"quote-for-the-day-144","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=9129","title":{"rendered":"Quote for the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>It is now impossible to have intellectual integrity and a conscience while remaining a Republican in good standing. Some conservatives have these qualities; almost all of them have left the party, or are on the edge of excommunication.<\/p>\n<p>Those who remain are either fanatics willing to do anything in pursuit of power, or cynics willing to go along with anything for a share of the spoils. And it\u2019s foolish to imagine that there are any limits on how far a party of fanatics and cynics will be willing to go. Anyone who might have had a sticking point, some uncrossable red line of bad behavior, has already taken the offramp.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/11\/01\/opinion\/republican-party-lies.html?action=click&#038;module=Opinion&#038;pgtype=Homepage\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Krugman<\/a>, New York Times<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is now impossible to have intellectual integrity and a conscience while remaining a Republican in good standing. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=9129\">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\/9129"}],"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=9129"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9131,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9129\/revisions\/9131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}