{"id":33178,"date":"2018-07-21T13:02:41","date_gmt":"2018-07-21T20:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=33178"},"modified":"2018-07-21T13:02:41","modified_gmt":"2018-07-21T20:02:41","slug":"vote-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/07\/21\/vote-blue\/","title":{"rendered":"VOTE BLUE!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every week we sign dozens of petitions, bitch about hundreds of outrages, and more.  Several of my Senators’ and Rep’s Aides recognize my voice.  If I had a nickel for every time I’ve bitched about Putin’s Puppet, we could all retire in style.  But we all need to remind ourselves, every day, about the most important things we need to do, as Frank Bruni explains in this editorial.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"0721VoteBlue!\"<\/p>\n

We got it wrong in 2016. We can get it right in 2018. There\u2019s a far side to this American disgrace, a way to contain the damage, and it\u2019s both utterly straightforward and entirely effective.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s called voting<\/strong>. And from now until Nov. 6, we must stay fanatically focused on that \u2014 on registering voters, turning them out, directing money to the right candidates, donating time in the right places.<\/p>\n

The moral of the Helsinki freak show, the NATO tragicomedy and the children in cages near the border isn\u2019t just that Donald Trump lacks any discernible conscience, real regard for this country or mature appreciation of history and our exalted part in it. It\u2019s that this next election matters \u2014 immeasurably.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no hyperbole in the frequent assertion that it\u2019s the most important midterm in a generation. And those of us rightly appalled by this president must devote as much energy to giving Democrats control of at least one chamber of Congress \u2014 and the ability to restrain him \u2014 as to finding fresh methods for mocking him.<\/strong> A blimp in a diaper<\/a> is a hoot. A legislature with its foot on his throat is an insurance policy… [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <NY Times<\/a>><\/font><\/p>\n

Click through to read the rest of this fine article.  There’s much more there.<\/font><\/p>\n

RESIST!!<\/font><\/font><\/h1>\n

VOTE BLUE!!<\/font><\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every week we sign dozens of petitions, bitch about hundreds of outrages, and more.  Several of my Senators’ and Rep’s Aides recognize my voice.  If I had a nickel for every time I’ve bitched about Putin’s Puppet, we could all retire in style.  But we all need to remind ourselves, every day, about the most […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}