{"id":570827,"date":"2010-05-19T07:40:01","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T11:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehollywoodliberal.com\/2010\/05\/19\/a-rebuke-to-the-parties\/"},"modified":"2010-05-19T07:40:01","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T11:40:01","slug":"a-rebuke-to-the-parties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/570827","title":{"rendered":"A Rebuke to the Parties"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Rebuke to the Parties <\/a>
Anti-establishment anger remains the political narrative in media coverage of yesterday’s primaries which saw Sen. Arlen Specter (D-PA) lose the Democratic nomination, Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) forced into a runoff and the GOP’s preferred choice for Senate in Kentucky crushed by a tea party candidate.<\/p>\n

Politico<\/a> put it best: “For any politician with the usual instincts for self-protection, the lessons of Tuesday’s primaries could not be more clear: This could happen to you.”<\/p>\n

A few more examples:<\/p>\n

The Washington Post<\/a> says Tuesday’s results “were the most powerful indicator to date of the voter anger and dissatisfaction that has shaped the political climate all year.”<\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/a> says the results “illustrated anew the serious threats both parties face from candidates who are able to portray themselves as outsiders and eager to shake up the system.”<\/p>\n

Wall Street Journal<\/a>: “Voters showed they were ready to sever ties with candidates too closely identified with Washington and its political leaders.”<\/p>\n

USA Today<\/a>: “A growing wave of discontent with government crashed down on ‘establishment’ candidates running in primaries Tuesday.” <\/p>\n

Edwards Seeking Plea Deal? <\/a>
The National Enquirer<\/a> — the newspaper of record on the John Edwards scandal — reports that the former presidential candidate is trying to work out a “plea deal” to avoid jail time as a federal grand jury investigating him appears to have wrapped up its case. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Rebuke to the Parties Anti-establishment anger remains the political narrative in media coverage of yesterday’s primaries which saw Sen. Arlen Specter (D-PA) lose the Democratic nomination, Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) forced into a runoff and the GOP’s preferred choice for Senate in Kentucky crushed by a tea party candidate. Politico put it best: “For […]<\/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-570827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570827","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=570827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}