{"id":2233,"date":"2009-03-04T20:13:58","date_gmt":"2009-03-04T20:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2233"},"modified":"2009-03-04T20:13:58","modified_gmt":"2009-03-04T20:13:58","slug":"dear_leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2233","title":{"rendered":"Dear Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Republican Party has opted to skip the civil war so many observers have been predicting and instead has chosen a suicide pact. And they&#8217;re not even going out in a blaze of glory. Instead, they&#8217;re shuffling to form a line in front of a snarling, odious little man who is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prospect.org\/csnc\/blogs\/ezraklein_archive?month=03&amp;year=2009&amp;base_name=david_frum_gets_this_right\">more than happy<\/a> to put a bullet into the head of every groveling one of them. During the election, they tried so hard to portray Democrats as a hapless bunch of ideologues in thrall to a leader with no experience. And now, they&#8217;re scratching their heads and trying to figure out how they let themselves be turned into human sacrifices for Limbaugh&#8217;s ambition and narcissism. <\/p>\n<p>They should have realized the wheels were coming off when their newly elected chairman said that the party needs to &#8220;uptick [its] image with everyone, <a href=\"http:\/\/wonkette.com\/406404\/michael-steele-to-reinvent-gop-with-hip-hop-and-youthiness\">including one-armed midgets<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?w=695\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Republican Party has opted to skip the civil war so many observers have been predicting and instead has chosen a suicide pact. And they&#8217;re not even going out in a blaze of glory. Instead, they&#8217;re shuffling to form a line in front of a snarling, odious little man who is more than happy to <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2233' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-A1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}