{"id":471749,"date":"2010-03-25T15:12:44","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T19:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=80492"},"modified":"2010-03-25T15:12:44","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T19:12:44","slug":"democrats-keep-up-the-%e2%80%98fanning-the-flames%e2%80%99-attack-on-gop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/471749","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Keep Up the \u2018Fanning the Flames\u2019 Attack on GOP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Doug Thornell, spokesman for Rep. Chris Van Hollen, fires back at Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/80467\/after-accusing-democrats-of-fanning-flames-cantor-to-appear-on-s-t-o-p-obama-tyranny-conference-call\">for the GOP whip&#8217;s remarks<\/a> about Democrats &#8220;fanning the flames&#8221; over health care.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Yesterday, Congressman Van Hollen called upon Republican leaders to condemn the harsh rhetoric that is fanning the flames of extremism around the country.\u00a0 Today, Mr. Cantor had the opportunity to join Mr. Van Hollen in calling for restraint.\u00a0 Instead, he chose to use his press conference to level false accusations.\u00a0 This is straight out of the Republicans\u2019 political playbook of deflecting responsibility and distracting attention away from a serious issue.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m told Cantor is not, as <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/80467\/after-accusing-democrats-of-fanning-flames-cantor-to-appear-on-s-t-o-p-obama-tyranny-conference-call\">reported\/promised<\/a>, appearing on a right-wing conference call on the theme of &#8220;stopping Obama tyranny&#8221; today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doug Thornell, spokesman for Rep. Chris Van Hollen, fires back at Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) for the GOP whip&#8217;s remarks about Democrats &#8220;fanning the flames&#8221; over health care. Yesterday, Congressman Van Hollen called upon Republican leaders to condemn the harsh rhetoric that is fanning the flames of extremism around the country.\u00a0 Today, Mr. Cantor had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4313,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-471749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471749","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\/4313"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}