{"id":1435,"date":"2007-05-13T16:42:46","date_gmt":"2007-05-13T16:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2007-05-13T17:00:31","modified_gmt":"2007-05-13T17:00:31","slug":"if_you_cant_arg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1435","title":{"rendered":"If You Can&#8217;t Argue, Can You At Least Read?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alicublog <a href=\"http:\/\/alicublog.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"browser\">linked<\/a> over to my Iraq post and commented:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>So if I stand here (jumps left) I will have to make harder choices tomorrow, and if I stand here (jumps right) I will have to make harder choices tomorrow. So where do I have to stand to avoid making harder choices tomorrow? Nowhere, my friend; nowhere. (laughs, smokes a cigar like Michael Dunn at the end of Ship of Fools.)<\/p>\n<p>\nAll things being equal, I think we should get the hell out of Iraq.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, yeah &#8211; if all things were equal, I&#8217;d say let&#8217;s get out of Iraq this afternoon&#8230;but might I suggest an argument as to why the hard choices tomorrow will be just as hard if we stay as if we go? My side has made a lot of them about why they will be harder&#8230;but Roy, like all the Netroots Pioneers of the Left&#8230;seems to think that argument is beneath him.<\/p>\n<p>Reading is apparently as well, because in the same post, he slags Redstate for &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.redstate.com\/stories\/the_parties\/an_open_declaration_of_war_against_the_house_republican_leadership\" target=\"browser\">declaring war<\/a>&#8216; on the GOP leadership. If he&#8217;d bothered to read the whole post at Redstate (I had it tagged to do a post about it&#8230;) he&#8217;d have seen that the conservative site is pissed off at the GOP leadership for appointing a corrupt (Republican!) Representative to a leadership position.<\/p>\n<p>I would fell swoon to think that my fellow Democratic bloggers would be as bold. But I must have missed the Netroots Pioneer outrage over the walkback from fighting the &#8220;Culture of Corruption&#8221;. After all &#8211; that sweet lobbyist money can be spent on Democratic Internet coordinators, and left blogads. so it will help support the Netroots!! And how can anything be bad that makes sure Matt Stoller has a fast pipe and a comfy chair??<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armed Liberal scratched his head at the Netroots &#8230; again &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}