{"id":3093,"date":"2011-12-21T11:52:59","date_gmt":"2011-12-21T11:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3093"},"modified":"2011-12-21T11:52:59","modified_gmt":"2011-12-21T11:52:59","slug":"those_zany_repu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3093","title":{"rendered":"Those Zany Republicans"},"content":{"rendered":"

When the Wall Street Journal<\/i> editorial page starts bashing House Republicans<\/a> for failing to extend the payroll tax cut, you know that the GOP is heading over a cliff. I’d really like someone to explain what Republicans were thinking when they decided to block a tax cut extension that the Senate passed with an overwhelming majority. Did they really believe they would score political points by opposing Obama on a tax cut? Has conservative ideology become so nihilistic as to cause its followers to take complete leave of their senses? Meanwhile, Obama is enjoying a modest but still noteworthy rebound in the polls<\/a>. If I didn’t know any better, I’d say that Republicans have a secret compulsion to throw the election to the President. So far, their strategy seems to be working. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When the Wall Street Journal editorial page starts bashing House Republicans for failing to extend the payroll tax cut, you know that the GOP is heading over a cliff. I’d really like someone to explain what Republicans were thinking when they decided to block a tax cut extension that the Senate passed with an overwhelming […]<\/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-3093","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-NT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3093","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=3093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}