{"id":509,"date":"2007-01-04T21:31:43","date_gmt":"2007-01-05T02:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/509"},"modified":"2007-01-04T21:42:01","modified_gmt":"2007-01-05T02:42:01","slug":"tales-from-george-bushs-americacontinued-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/509","title":{"rendered":"Tales From George Bush&#8217;s America&#8230;(continued)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Wood wonders about why it is that liberals are so angry&#8230;\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/article.nationalreview.com\/?q=NTYyOTM0NGY1YWY2YWUxMzM4ZWZmNTA4Y2FlYzg2OTI=\"><span class=\"articletitle\">The Liberalitarian Dust-Up<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<span class=\"articlesubtitle\">The Angry Left rebukes a would-be friend.<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"articlesubtitle\">By Peter Wood<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>When I discuss the Left&rsquo;s embrace of New Anger with people across the political spectrum, two not very satisfactory explanations keep coming up. One is that the party that is out of power has more to gripe about. Yes, but that doesn&rsquo;t explain why the Left gravitated to a <em>form<\/em> of anger that exacerbated its unpopularity. Nor, why the Right, in similar circumstances kept its New Anger aficionados on the margins.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The New Anger.&nbsp; The left gravitiates to it.&nbsp; Even though it makes them unpopular.&nbsp; The right would never do such things&#8230;\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.townhall.com\/columnists\/AnnCoulter\/2007\/01\/03\/the_democratic_party_a_vast_sleeper_cell\">The Democratic Party: A Vast Sleeper Cell<\/a><br \/>\n<span class=\"red10bold\">By Ann Coulter<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Fortunately for liberals, the Iraqis executed Saddam Hussein   the exact same week that former President Ford died, so it didn&#8217;t   seem strange that Nancy Pelosi&#8217;s flag was at half-staff.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nCivility.&nbsp; Why are you liberals so angry?&nbsp; Why can&#8217;t you be more civil?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Wood wonders about why it is that liberals are so angry&#8230; The Liberalitarian Dust-Up The Angry Left rebukes a would-be friend. By Peter Wood When I discuss the Left&rsquo;s embrace of New Anger with people across the political spectrum, two not very satisfactory explanations keep coming up. One is that the party that is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[34,20,6],"class_list":["post-509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-george-bushs-america","tag-the-american-gutter","tag-the-right-wing-mindset"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}