{"id":3226,"date":"2009-10-13T04:10:35","date_gmt":"2009-10-13T04:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3226"},"modified":"2009-10-13T04:10:35","modified_gmt":"2009-10-13T04:10:35","slug":"the-democratic-party-crack-up-over-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3226","title":{"rendered":"The Democratic Party Crack-Up over Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_of9ue2vob2g\/SbCibHbmTtI\/AAAAAAAAID4\/u9ZgsrGrrwY\/s400\/obama-reid-pelosi.jpg\" height=\"268\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Some politics of foreign policy and war&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>An implicit theme of the &#8220;no drama&#8221;\u00a0<strong>Obama administration<\/strong> is &#8220;<strong><em>You can trust Democrats with National Security<\/em><\/strong>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>Until, of course, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/article.php?id=CNG.8d7d5f00e10f34124d253754c8f59ddf.2d1&amp;show_article=1\">there is a roll call<\/a>. Funding the Obama administration&#8217;s strategic policies in Afghanistan and Iraq\u00a0are going to have to pass with Republican and Blue Dog Democrat votes as the graying, liberal, \u00a0Boomer Democrats in Congress relive ( for the 1000th vote) the one time they waved an anti-war sign on the quad back\u00a0in &#8217;69 after toking up a doobie\u00a0in the dorm hall, and vote in a bloc against the leader of their party. Good. I hope they make an enormous media production out of it featuring the most extreme crazies in their caucus making abrasive, tone-deaf, comments on national television.<\/p>\n<p>In 2010, the GOP ( if they have <strong><u>any<\/u><\/strong> political sense &#8211; a long shot at this juncture)\u00a0may be running campaign commercials on how their Republican members stood solidly\u00a0with the president against <strong>al Qaida<\/strong> when their Democratic counterparts did not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Some politics of foreign policy and war&#8230;\u00a0 An implicit theme of the &#8220;no drama&#8221;\u00a0Obama administration is &#8220;You can trust Democrats with National Security&#8220;. Until, of course, there is a roll call. Funding the Obama administration&#8217;s strategic policies in Afghanistan and Iraq\u00a0are going to have to pass with Republican and Blue Dog Democrat votes as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[527,361,304,185,483,87,425,492,39,270,372,183,543,251,211,229,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-america","category-defense","category-democratic-party","category-extremists","category-foreign-policy","category-government","category-leadership","category-military","category-national-security","category-non-state-actors","category-obama","category-podcast","category-republican-party","category-terrorism","category-vietnam-war","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}