May 14, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\nThe Republicans thrive in the minority, but only if they oppose everything. Look at the poor NRA, which is losing money because they can\u2019t claim their guns are threatened. But I am adding evidence to a case already made. Where was Biden when McConnell said his only objective at the start of Obama\u2019s presidency was to assure that he was a one term president. Where was he when the Republicans refused the offered chance to destroy social security solely because they didn\u2019t want to work on anything with Obama, even on an objective they\u2019ve cherished for over 60 years. Where was he during the Merrick Garland debacle? The coma theory is the only one that gives the man the benefit of the doubt.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ll vote for him if I have to, but he\u2019s a sure ticket, should he win (and I don\u2019t think he will), to a Republican sweep in 2024.<\/p>\n
Oh well, maybe I\u2019ll be dead by then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
If there were a god I would be imploring him\/her to save us from this man: In New Hampshire, Joe Biden predicts that once President Trump is out of office, Republicans will have \u201can epiphany\u201d and work with Democrats toward consensus. \u2014 Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) May 14, 2019 The Republicans thrive in the minority, but only […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-presidential-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8356","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=8356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8357,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8356\/revisions\/8357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}