{"id":2049,"date":"2009-07-05T20:40:16","date_gmt":"2009-07-06T00:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/?p=2049"},"modified":"2009-07-05T20:40:16","modified_gmt":"2009-07-06T00:40:16","slug":"politics-as-usual-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2009\/07\/05\/politics-as-usual-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Politics as Usual"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5iubIQLawuKXGQ-TOZApWxw4EE2BQD9989LKG0\">This article<\/a> makes me sick. If I try to distill the story down to a few sentences, I end up with a summary like this: some Republicans are trying to seize the opportunity to stick it to the Democrats by opposing Sotomayor, but other Republicans haven&#8217;t seen a good reason to oppose her. Still others think that they should give her carte blanche because she&#8217;s Hispanic and they don&#8217;t want to seem racist, or because the GOP needs stronger Hispanic backing. Some have blatantly confessed that they&#8217;re trying to figure out what would resonate most with voters.<\/p>\n<p>Conspicuously absent in Congress, at least as told by this article, is any discussion about whether or not Sotomayor is a good candidate for the Supreme Court. Isn&#8217;t that all that matters? Stop discussing partisan loyalty, organized tactics to make your point, or race. If she&#8217;s qualified, approve her. If not, oppose her nomination and explain why you&#8217;re doing so. Is it really that hard?<\/p>\n<p>(This isn&#8217;t at all meant to suggest that Republicans are alone in doing these things. They&#8217;re just the ones in the news at this particular moment.)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article makes me sick. If I try to distill the story down to a few sentences, I end up with a summary like this: some Republicans are trying to seize the opportunity to stick it to the Democrats by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2009\/07\/05\/politics-as-usual-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}