{"id":11981,"date":"2012-08-15T21:27:21","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T02:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=11981"},"modified":"2012-08-16T08:03:29","modified_gmt":"2012-08-16T13:03:29","slug":"reasonable-republicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2012\/08\/15\/reasonable-republicans\/","title":{"rendered":"Reasonable Republicans?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The New York Times<\/em> has this brief item from Paul Krugman, <a title=\"The New York Times article\" href=\"http:\/\/krugman.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/08\/15\/reasonable-republicans\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Reasonable Republicans?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It\u2019s kind of the \u201ctreason never prospers\u201d argument (\u201cfor if it prospers, none dare call it treason\u201d); if someone declares that tax cuts don\u2019t pay for themselves, or that printing money when you\u2019re in a liquidity trap isn\u2019t deeply inflationary, or that fear of Obamacare isn\u2019t holding the economy back, he ceases to be considered a member in good standing of the GOP. There are, therefore, no reasonable Republicans on these issues.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t take long for Paul Krugman to explain why there are no reasonable Republics.\u00a0 The above excerpt is a substantial part of the entire article.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to RichardH for bringing this to my attention.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ww.worldofquotes.com\/topic\/Treason\/1\/index.html\" title=\"World Of Quotes\" target=\"_blank\">From World Of Quotes<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cTreason doth never prosper: what&#8217;s the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.\u201d<br \/><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldofquotes.com\/author\/Sir+John+Harrington\/1\/index.html\" title=\"Sir John Harrington at World Of Quotes\" target=\"_blank\">Sir John Harrington Quotes<\/a><\/strong><br \/>Source: Of Treason&#8211;Epigrams (bk. IV, ep. V)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times has this brief item from Paul Krugman, Reasonable Republicans? It\u2019s kind of the \u201ctreason never prospers\u201d argument (\u201cfor if it prospers, none dare call it treason\u201d); if someone declares that tax cuts don\u2019t pay for themselves, or that printing money when you\u2019re in a liquidity trap isn\u2019t deeply inflationary, or that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11981","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11981"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11986,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11981\/revisions\/11986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}