{"id":567178,"date":"2010-05-17T07:32:14","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T11:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehollywoodliberal.com\/2010\/05\/17\/so-much-for-europes-superiority\/"},"modified":"2010-05-17T07:32:14","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T11:32:14","slug":"so-much-for-europe%e2%80%99s-superiority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/567178","title":{"rendered":"So Much for Europe\u2019s Superiority"},"content":{"rendered":"

So Much for Europe’s Superiority \t\t\t\t\t<\/a>
Joel Kotkin, The Daily Beast
For much of the last quarter century, European pundits, particularly in France, have been promoting the notion that the old continent sat on the verge of a grand resurgence. The events of the past month—culminating in a trillion dollar rescue of the Euro—should, at least, put that dodgy notion to rest.Although the financial crisis may have originated on Wall Street, it’s been Europe and the Euro that now represent the big threat to drive world markets back into recession. The show stealers are India, China and Brazil. Still the big boy on the block, the American…<\/p>\n

The Threat to Miranda \t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n

The GOP’s Grass-Roots Obstructionists \t\t\t\t\t<\/a>
Galston & Mann, Washington Post
We commend The Post for initiating a forum on polarization, which is indeed the dominant political phenomenon of our time. Consider that for the first time in modern history, in both the House and the Senate, the most conservative Democrat is slightly more liberal than the most liberal Republican. This is more than an interesting scholarly finding; it has consequences for the legislative process. The most conservative Senate Democrat (Ben Nelson) ended up supporting health reform; the most liberal Republican (Olympia Snowe) ended up opposing it. For decades, the operational core of…<\/p>\n

Democrats’ Diverse Coalition \t\t\t\t\t<\/a>
E.J. Dionne, Washington Post<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So Much for Europe’s Superiority Joel Kotkin, The Daily BeastFor much of the last quarter century, European pundits, particularly in France, have been promoting the notion that the old continent sat on the verge of a grand resurgence. The events of the past month—culminating in a trillion dollar rescue of the Euro—should, at least, put […]<\/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-567178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567178","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=567178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}