{"id":17936,"date":"2014-08-12T10:21:52","date_gmt":"2014-08-12T14:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=17936"},"modified":"2016-06-10T20:02:45","modified_gmt":"2016-06-11T00:02:45","slug":"allying-with-the-tea-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2014\/08\/12\/allying-with-the-tea-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Allying with the Tea Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Reich has posted an item on his Facebook page.\u00a0 I have excepted the starting sentence of the post below.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Tea Partier David Brat\u2019s surprising win last June over House minority leader Eric Cantor for the Republican nomination for Virginia\u2019s 7th congressional district turned on Brat\u2019s charge that Cantor represented \u201clarge corporations seeking insider deals, crony bailouts, and a constant supply of low-wage workers.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If we can just get the TPers to concentrate on the issue of \u201clarge corporations seeking insider deals, crony bailouts, and a constant supply of low-wage workers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If they can get this fixed, then Social Security and Medicare won&#8217;t even be a problem. We can then realize that we can be allies with the TPers on some issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Reich has posted an item on his Facebook page.\u00a0 I have excepted the starting sentence of the post below. Tea Partier David Brat\u2019s surprising win last June over House minority leader Eric Cantor for the Republican nomination for Virginia\u2019s 7th congressional district turned on Brat\u2019s charge that Cantor represented \u201clarge corporations seeking insider deals, [&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":[35],"class_list":{"0":"post-17936","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"tag-social-security","8":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17936","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=17936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17937,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17936\/revisions\/17937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}