{"id":67,"date":"2005-03-24T02:25:10","date_gmt":"2005-03-24T02:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opendna.com\/?p=67"},"modified":"2022-11-08T12:34:07","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T12:34:07","slug":"re-i-miss-republicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/24\/re-i-miss-republicans\/","title":{"rendered":"RE: I Miss Republicans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Rogers<\/em> at <a href=\"http:\/\/kfmonkey.blogspot.com\/\">Kung Fu Monkey<\/a> busts out a rant that I think many of us can appreciate. In fact, it\u2019s so good i\u2019m going to quote more than I really should and then add the ATOM feed (as should you).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/kfmonkey.blogspot.com\/2004\/12\/i-miss-republicans.html\">I Miss Republicans<\/a>&#8230; No, seriously. Remember Republicans? Sober men in suits, pipes, who\u2019d nod thoughtfully over their latest tract on market-driven fiscal conservatism while grinding out the numbers on rocket science. Remember those serious-looking 1950\u2019s-1960\u2019s science guys in the movies\u2014Republic an to  a one.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They were the grown-ups. They were the realists. Sure they were a bummer, maaaaan, but on the way to La Revolution you need somebody to remember where you parked the car. I was never one (nor a Democrat, really, more an agnostic libertarian big on the social contract, but we don\u2019t have a party \u2026), but I genuinely liked them.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Barrister<\/em> lives not far from California\u2019s GOP core, or what used to be the core. Sometimes he rides down to the 8-figure residences and beach-side scotch clubs to visit a client or friend and exposes himself to philosophies so un-Canadian as to stun his moral conscience. Then his Republicans start talking about the way things are today and they get nasty. The tag of self-identified \u201cDisgruntled Republican\u201d is spreading faster than mono in a sorority house. Apparently something happened on the way to a Bush Whitehouse: the DC-GOP is more at home in the land of meth labs and Christian AM radio than billionare mansions. The billionares are a little annoyed about this.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.opendna.com\/wpress\/index.php?cat=9\">Along the Frontlines<\/a> where veterans and eastern conservative are predominant, a sour mood has settled. At least the President isn\u2019t Hillary Clinton, and that\u2019s about as nice a thing as they\u2019re going to say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rogers at Kung Fu Monkey busts out a rant that I think many of us can appreciate. In fact, it\u2019s so good i\u2019m going to quote more than I really should and then add the ATOM feed (as should you). I Miss Republicans&#8230; No, seriously. Remember Republicans? Sober men in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[210],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-essays","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1914,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions\/1914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}