{"id":1269,"date":"2009-05-11T07:17:35","date_gmt":"2009-05-11T15:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/?p=1269"},"modified":"2009-05-11T07:19:56","modified_gmt":"2009-05-11T15:19:56","slug":"arlen-specter-on-changing-parties-in-mid-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/arlen-specter-on-changing-parties-in-mid-session\/","title":{"rendered":"Arlen Specter perfectly illustrates political argumentation"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a text-book example of the three steps:<\/p>\n

1) If you don’t do what I’m asking, you’ll upset your friends, and hurt my feelings<\/p>\n

2) If you do what I’m asking, I’ll waive the rules for you and bribe you with other people’s money<\/p>\n

3) If you don’t do what I’m asking, I’ll pass a law to prevent you from doing what you want<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s all here:<\/p>\n

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Sounds convincing, doesn’t he?\u00a0 I particularly threw up at the final mealy-mouthed exchange with Harry Reid at the end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a text-book example of the three steps: 1) If you don’t do what I’m asking, you’ll upset your friends, and hurt my feelings 2) If you do what I’m asking, I’ll waive the rules for you and bribe you with other people’s money 3) If you don’t do what I’m asking, I’ll pass […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-revealed-preference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1269"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1272,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269\/revisions\/1272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}