{"id":22006,"date":"2015-11-18T10:00:42","date_gmt":"2015-11-18T15:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=22006"},"modified":"2015-11-18T10:00:42","modified_gmt":"2015-11-18T15:00:42","slug":"france-brave-republicans-americans-cowards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2015\/11\/18\/france-brave-republicans-americans-cowards\/","title":{"rendered":"France Brave; Republicans (Americans) Cowards?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Daily Kos<\/em> has the post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2015\/11\/18\/1451509\/-French-President-unlike-the-Republican-Party-refuses-to-appease-ISIS-and-will-take-30-000-refugees\" target=\"_blank\">France isn&#8217;t afraid, why is the Republican Party?<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nSince Friday\u2019s horrific attacks in Paris, the Republican Party has delighted ISIS by tripping over themselves to declare that the United States shouldn\u2019t take in Syrian refugees because \u2026 uh \u2026 well, because even if they didn\u2019t have anything to do with the attacks, they are Muslims, so why not equate all of them with the terrorists who murdered at least 129 people last week? After all, their base loves it. French President Fran\u00e7ois Hollande, on the other hand, decided that France would not bow down to terrorists:\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>The Daily Kos<\/em> post makes reference to this <em>ABC News<\/em> tweet <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ABC\/status\/666959656913342464?ref_src=twsrc^tfw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"ABC News tweet\">NEW: Pres. Hollande commits to taking 30,000 refugees in next 2 years; says France has duty to honor that commitment. \u201cLife must go on.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>ABC News<\/em> also has the article <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/president-obama-mocks-republicans-refugee-stance\/story?id=35269750\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"ABC news article\">President Obama Mocks Republicans on Refugee Stance.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>All of this may be the proof that we need that Republicans are cowards, just as Bernie Sanders calls them for being too afraid of facing the consequences of letting all of the people vote in fair elections.<\/p>\n<p>See my previous post <a href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2015\/11\/18\/on-rejecting-the-human-intelligence-of-syrian-refugees\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Previpus post\">On Rejecting the Human Intelligence of Syrian Refugees<\/a> to understand why this Republican stance is not just cowardice, but it is stupid cowardice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily Kos has the post France isn&#8217;t afraid, why is the Republican Party? Since Friday\u2019s horrific attacks in Paris, the Republican Party has delighted ISIS by tripping over themselves to declare that the United States shouldn\u2019t take in Syrian refugees because \u2026 uh \u2026 well, because even if they didn\u2019t have anything to do [&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-22006","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\/22006","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=22006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22007,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22006\/revisions\/22007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}