{"id":1397,"date":"2005-05-17T12:59:14","date_gmt":"2005-05-17T16:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=1397"},"modified":"2005-05-17T12:59:14","modified_gmt":"2005-05-17T16:59:14","slug":"gop-talking-points-no-nukes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=1397","title":{"rendered":"GOP Talking Points: ‘No Nukes’!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Josh Marshall gets the goods<\/a> on the Republican plan to attempt to morph “Nuclear Option” into “Constitutional Option” via a Republican Senate Committee Talking Points Memo [PDF]<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The GOP strategy for bamboozling the American People with linguistic tricks has been working quietly — and working very effectively! — for years. Now, however, that there is an actual opposition<\/i> media (yes, that “Liberal Media” you’ve heard so much about is actually<\/i> beginning to come into existance…even if it’s out here, built from the ragtag blogosphere) one wonders how much longer they’ll be able to get away with such tricks.<\/p>\n

They were busted in the Schiavo case, and it looks like they’re busted in the “Nuclear Option” case. For that, and many other reasons, it looks like the GOP Hucksters may be in more long and short term trouble than they realize yet.<\/p>\n

That’s just speculation on our part, of course. And yes, we’re of the eternally optimistic sort still. But we believe we’re seeing some signs written on the wall that The Force is not<\/i> with the GOP these days. We believe we’re seeing an Empire, if not yet crumbling, then beginning to show its potentially fatal cracks. Stay tuned…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Josh Marshall gets the goods on the Republican plan to attempt to morph “Nuclear Option” into “Constitutional Option” via a Republican Senate Committee Talking Points Memo [PDF]. The GOP strategy for bamboozling the American People with linguistic tricks has been working quietly — and working very effectively! — for years. Now, however, that there is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1397"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=1397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}