{"id":250,"date":"2006-06-28T07:31:04","date_gmt":"2006-06-28T11:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/?p=250"},"modified":"2006-06-28T07:31:56","modified_gmt":"2006-06-28T11:31:56","slug":"from-talking-points-memo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/?p=250","title":{"rendered":"From &#8220;Talking Points Memo&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/archives\/008858.php\">This<\/a> from Josh Marshall&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/\">Talking Points Memo<\/a>, one of the best political blogs:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nSo on exporting democracy &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>1. President encourages supporters to accuse newspaper reporters of treason: check.<\/p>\n<p>2. President mandates systematic use of torture: check.<\/p>\n<p>3. President routinely asserts right to ignore laws passed by Congress: check.<\/p>\n<p>What am I missing?<\/p>\n<p>Actually, I think it&#8217;s more one of those trick questions. Like, we&#8217;re not exporting &#8216;democracy&#8217; but <u>our<\/u> democracy. So, as we send it to them, we lose ours.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This from Josh Marshall&#8217;s Talking Points Memo, one of the best political blogs: So on exporting democracy &#8230; 1. President encourages supporters to accuse newspaper reporters of treason: check. 2. President mandates systematic use of torture: check. 3. President routinely asserts right to ignore laws passed by Congress: check. What am I missing? Actually, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}