{"id":24751,"date":"2017-10-24T17:49:25","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T21:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=24751"},"modified":"2017-10-24T17:49:25","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T21:49:25","slug":"i-will-not-be-complicit-jeff-flakes-retirement-speech-annotated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2017\/10\/24\/i-will-not-be-complicit-jeff-flakes-retirement-speech-annotated\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I will not be complicit.\u2019 Jeff Flake\u2019s retirement speech, annotated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Washington Post<\/em> has the article and the video <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-fix\/wp\/2017\/10\/24\/i-will-not-be-complicit-jeff-flakes-retirement-speech-annotated\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018I will not be complicit.\u2019 Jeff Flake\u2019s retirement speech, annotated<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWhen we remain silent and fail to act when we know that that silence and inaction is the wrong thing to do \u2013 because of political considerations, because we might make enemies, because we might alienate the base, because we might provoke a primary challenge, because ad infinitum, ad nauseum \u2013 when we succumb to those considerations in spite of what should be greater considerations and imperatives in defense of the institutions of our liberty, then we dishonor our principles and forsake our obligations. Those things are far more important than politics.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n    <iframe width='480' height='290' scrolling='no' src='https:\/\/player.washingtonpost.com\/prod\/powaEmbed.html?adBar=true&#038;autoinit=true&#038;org=wapo&#038;playthrough=true&#038;uuid=f9eae474-b8f2-11e7-9b93-b97043e57a22' style=\"border: thick ridge #009900;\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<pre class=\"plain\">\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>An honest address by a Republican.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post has the article and the video \u2018I will not be complicit.\u2019 Jeff Flake\u2019s retirement speech, annotated When we remain silent and fail to act when we know that that silence and inaction is the wrong thing to do \u2013 because of political considerations, because we might make enemies, because we might alienate [&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-24751","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\/24751","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=24751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24752,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24751\/revisions\/24752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}