{"id":258607,"date":"2010-02-01T07:31:15","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T12:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehollywoodliberal.com\/2010\/02\/01\/2010-elections-taking-the-fifth\/"},"modified":"2010-02-01T07:31:15","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T12:31:15","slug":"2010-elections-taking-the-fifth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/258607","title":{"rendered":"2010 Elections: Taking the Fifth"},"content":{"rendered":"

2010 Elections: Taking the Fifth \t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n

Barack Obama is No Bill Clinton \t\t\t\t\t<\/a>
Fred Barnes, Weekly Standard
  President Obama's greatest need is to escape the ideological grip of congressional Democrats and the liberal base of the Democratic party (they're one and the same). But he either doesn't recognize this or, as a conventional liberal himself, isn't so inclined. This self-inflicted difficulty has put Obama in worse political straits than President Clinton faced after the Republican landslide of 1994. On January 27, the secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, was roundly criticized at a meeting of the House Homeland Security Committee. She had ducked the…<\/p>\n

A Very Productive Congress \t\t\t\t\t<\/a>
Norman Ornstein, Washington Post
When President Obama urged lawmakers during his State of the Union speech to work with him on "restoring the public trust," he was hardly going out on a limb. The Congress he was addressing is one of the least popular in decades. Barely a quarter of Americans approve of the job it's doing, according to the latest Gallup\/USA Today poll, while 58 percent said it was below average or one of the worst ever, according to an NBC\/Wall Street Journal survey last month.It's not hard to find reasons why Americans are down on Capitol Hill, and why President Obama's…<\/p>\n

The Redlining of Small Businesses \t\t\t\t\t<\/a>
Dubroff & Huggins, Denver Post
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Obama’s Ineptness Clear After a Year \t\t\t\t\t<\/a>
Thomas McClanahan, KC Star<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2010 Elections: Taking the Fifth Barack Obama is No Bill Clinton Fred Barnes, Weekly Standard  President Obama's greatest need is to escape the ideological grip of congressional Democrats and the liberal base of the Democratic party (they're one and the same). But he either doesn't recognize this or, as a conventional liberal himself, isn't so inclined. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":807,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/807"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}