{"id":4652,"date":"2010-09-08T14:18:31","date_gmt":"2010-09-08T19:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=4652"},"modified":"2010-09-08T14:22:30","modified_gmt":"2010-09-08T19:22:30","slug":"put-on-your-big-boy-pants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2010\/09\/08\/put-on-your-big-boy-pants\/","title":{"rendered":"Put On Our Big Boy Pants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mary Pitt in her post <a title=\"Mary Pitt's blog post\" href=\"http:\/\/www.opednews.com\/articles\/With-Friends-Like-These-by-Mary-Pitt-100907-623.html#startcomments\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>With Friends Like These<\/strong><\/a> takes progressives to task for their constant whining.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The very same people who elected this man and, in addition, gave him a predominantly Democratic Congress to assist him in his task, are the ones who are sitting on their haunches and wailing like a pack of forlorn hound dogs. &#8220;He set the wrong priorities!&#8221; &#8220;He isn&#8217;t doing enough!&#8221; &#8220;He isn&#8217;t doing it fast enough!&#8221; &#8220;He&#8217;s a failure!&#8221; These are not the words from the opposition. They are the words of his supporters!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And the money quote that gave me the headline:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s time to put on our Big Boy pants, roll up our sleeves and get out the vote for Our Side<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary Pitt in her post With Friends Like These takes progressives to task for their constant whining. The very same people who elected this man and, in addition, gave him a predominantly Democratic Congress to assist him in his task, are the ones who are sitting on their haunches and wailing like a pack of [&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-4652","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\/4652","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=4652"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4654,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4652\/revisions\/4654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}