{"id":4691,"date":"2011-07-12T05:53:49","date_gmt":"2011-07-12T10:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=4691"},"modified":"2011-07-12T05:53:49","modified_gmt":"2011-07-12T10:53:49","slug":"a-new-meaning-for-centrist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=4691","title":{"rendered":"A new meaning for centrist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the headline in today&#8217;s Day, Obama is staking out a centrist position in the ginned up &#8220;debt crisis&#8221;. Given that he is proposing Medicare cuts opposed by the vast majority of Americans, and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/politics\/2011\/07\/11\/265792\/snowe-no-medicare-ss-deal\/\">that even Olympia Snowe can&#8217;t support them<\/a>, we must conclude that the term &#8220;center&#8221;, at least in politics, has a new definition: a point somewhere between Ayn Rand and the ever rightward shifting status quo. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the headline in today&#8217;s Day, Obama is staking out a centrist position in the ginned up &#8220;debt crisis&#8221;. Given that he is proposing Medicare cuts opposed by the vast majority of Americans, and that even Olympia Snowe can&#8217;t support them, we must conclude that the term &#8220;center&#8221;, at least in politics, has a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-obama"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}