{"id":6431,"date":"2008-09-26T13:20:41","date_gmt":"2008-09-26T20:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=6431"},"modified":"2008-09-26T14:59:42","modified_gmt":"2008-09-26T21:59:42","slug":"brad-at-the-uk-guardian-careening-down-the-slippery-slope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6431","title":{"rendered":"Brad at UK Guardian: &#8216;Careening Down the Slippery Slope&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/TheBradBlog_GuardianUK.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">My column this week at the UK&#8217;s <i>Guardian<\/i> is headlined <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/cifamerica\/2008\/sep\/26\/congress.bush.executive.privilege\">&#8220;Careening down the slippery slope.&#8221;<\/a> It begins this way&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">Americans &#8211; most notably right-leaning Americans &#8211; used to issue dire warnings about sliding down &#8220;the slippery slope&#8221; on any number of hot-button political issues. From the slippery slope of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frc.org\/get.cfm?i=bc04c02\">same-sex marriage<\/a> to the slippery slope of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guncite.com\/journals\/okslip.html\">gun control<\/a> to the slippery slope of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cwfa.org\/articledisplay.asp?id=1413&#038;department=CWA&#038;categoryid=life\">abortion rights<\/a> to the slippery slope of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pushhamburger.com\/slippery.htm\">immigration<\/a> and on and on, various political interest groups in America guarded that slope, with no small amount of zeal, lest any of us find our God-given rights or once-vaunted rule of law lost for good before we even noticed.<\/p>\n<p>Bad news. We&#8217;ve lost our God-given rights, at least our constitutional ones, and certainly the rule of law. The US is now in full-plummet down the slippery slope, due, in no small part, to a lack of courage, willingness, interest and imagination of those who might have kept it from happening long ago.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>Please check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/cifamerica\/2008\/sep\/26\/congress.bush.executive.privilege\">the full article&#8230;<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My column this week at the UK&#8217;s Guardian is headlined &#8220;Careening down the slippery slope.&#8221; It begins this way&#8230; Americans &#8211; most notably right-leaning Americans &#8211; used to issue dire warnings about sliding down &#8220;the slippery slope&#8221; on any number of hot-button political issues. From the slippery slope of same-sex marriage to the slippery slope [&hellip;]<\/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":[192,89,390,178,188,126,127,198,233],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-6431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-media-appearance","category-economy","category-impeachment","category-mainstream-media-failure","category-rights-and-freedoms","category-the-constitution","category-us-house","category-us-senate","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6431","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=6431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6431"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=6431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}