{"id":375600,"date":"2010-03-01T07:31:15","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T12:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehollywoodliberal.com\/2010\/03\/01\/dc-is-working-fine-the-public-is-the-problem\/"},"modified":"2010-03-01T07:31:15","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T12:31:15","slug":"dc-is-working-fine-the-public-is-the-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/375600","title":{"rendered":"DC is Working Fine. The Public is the Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/2010\/02\/28\/dc_is_working_fine_the_public_is_the_problem_230199.html\" >DC is Working Fine. The Public is the Problem \t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/> Evan Thomas, Newsweek<br \/>Washington is working just fine. It&apos;s us that&apos;s broken.Please fill in the following information and we&apos;ll email this link.Separate multiple addresses with commasWatching your government at work can be an appalling spectacle. Politicians posture and bicker, and not much gets done. It&apos;s gotten so bad&quot;&rdquo;or at least seems so bad&quot;&rdquo;that pundits are beginning to wonder if the system is broken in some fundamental way and to cast about for a big fix. Some little fixes might help&quot;&rdquo;reforming the Senate filibuster would be a&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/2010\/02\/28\/obama_should_pack_the_supreme_court_230180.html\" >Obama Should Pack the Supreme Court \t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/> Stan Isaacs, Philadelphia Inquirer<\/p>\n<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/2010\/02\/28\/we_can039t_wish_away_climate_change_230189.html\" >We Can&#8217;t Wish Away Climate Change \t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/> Al Gore, New York Times<br \/>It would be an enormous relief if the recent attacks on the science of global warming actually indicated that we do not face an unimaginable calamity requiring large-scale, preventive measures to protect human civilization as we know it. Of course, we would still need to deal with the national security risks of our growing dependence on a global oil market dominated by dwindling reserves in the most unstable region of the world, and the economic risks of sending hundreds of billions of dollars a year overseas in return for that oil. And we would still trail China in the race to develop smart&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/2010\/02\/28\/the_axis_of_the_obsessed_and_deranged_230188.html\" >The Axis of the Obsessed and Deranged \t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/> Frank Rich, New York Times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DC is Working Fine. The Public is the Problem Evan Thomas, NewsweekWashington is working just fine. It&apos;s us that&apos;s broken.Please fill in the following information and we&apos;ll email this link.Separate multiple addresses with commasWatching your government at work can be an appalling spectacle. Politicians posture and bicker, and not much gets done. It&apos;s gotten so [&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-375600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375600","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=375600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}