{"id":321972,"date":"2010-02-15T07:31:11","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T12:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehollywoodliberal.com\/2010\/02\/15\/signs-of-gop-resurgence-in-ne-districts\/"},"modified":"2010-02-15T07:31:11","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T12:31:11","slug":"signs-of-gop-resurgence-in-n-e-districts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/321972","title":{"rendered":"Signs of GOP Resurgence in N.E. Districts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/2010\/02\/14\/signs_of_gop_resurgence_in_ne_districts_229466.html\" >Signs of GOP Resurgence in N.E. Districts \t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/> Brian Mooney, Boston Globe<br \/>It was another week, another telltale of the turbulence besetting New England Democrats.One of the party&#8217;s biggest names, US Representative Patrick J. Kennedy of Rhode Island, announced he will not seek reelection, 37 days after Senator Christopher J. Dodd of Connecticut did the same. In between, a little-known Republican, Scott Brown, knocked Washington off-kilter by winning the Massachusetts Senate seat of Kennedy&#8217;s late father, Edward M. Kennedy.In some of the most reliably Democratic states in the nation, well-known Democrats are suddenly vulnerable. And the GOP,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/news\/ap\/politics\/2010\/Feb\/14\/us_debt_will_keep_growing_even_with_recovery.html\" >US Debt to Keep Growing Even with Recovery \t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/> Tom Raum, Associated Press<br \/>It&apos;s bad enough that Greece&apos;s debt problems have rattled global financial markets. In the world&apos;s largest economic and military power, there&apos;s a far more serious debt dilemma.For the U.S., the crushing weight of its debt threatens to overwhelm everything the federal government does, even in the short-term, best-case financial scenario &#8220;&quot; a full recovery and a return to prerecession employment levels.The government already has made so many promises to so many expanding &#8220;mandatory&#8221; programs. Just keeping these commitments, without major changes in&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/2010\/02\/14\/obama_should_reverse_course_on_terrorists_229440.html\" >Obama Should Reverse Course on Terrorists \t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/> Michael Goodwin, NY Post<\/p>\n<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/2010\/02\/14\/tea_parties_are_right-wing_reactionary_movement_229437.html\" >Tea Parties Are Right-Wing Reactionary Movement \t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Signs of GOP Resurgence in N.E. Districts Brian Mooney, Boston GlobeIt was another week, another telltale of the turbulence besetting New England Democrats.One of the party&#8217;s biggest names, US Representative Patrick J. Kennedy of Rhode Island, announced he will not seek reelection, 37 days after Senator Christopher J. Dodd of Connecticut did the same. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":807,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-321972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321972","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=321972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}