{"id":2387,"date":"2010-11-02T04:41:32","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T04:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2010-11-02T04:41:32","modified_gmt":"2010-11-02T04:41:32","slug":"requiem_for_the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=2387","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Requiem for the Pelosi Democrats&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052702303284604575582320752384384.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop\" target=\"browser\">From the WSJ<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>&#8220;A lot of rethinking is needed&#8221; after Democrats take their drubbing, Mr. Baird says, especially since he anticipates &#8220;a huge number of retirements&#8221; from Democrats unwilling to serve in the minority. He proposes that the House elect an independent speaker who would help drain partisanship from the body. Britain&#8217;s House of Commons uses such a model.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats, he says, will also have to recognize why they lost touch with voters. &#8220;Back in September, we had pollsters and strategists from my party tell members that the mass of people didn&#8217;t care about the deficit. The mind-boggling lack of reality coming from some of the people who give us so-called advice is stunning.&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the WSJ: &#8220;A lot of rethinking is needed&#8221; after Democrats take their drubbing, Mr. Baird says, especially since he anticipates &#8220;a huge number of retirements&#8221; from Democrats unwilling to serve in the minority. He proposes that the House elect an independent speaker who would help drain partisanship from the body. Britain&#8217;s House of Commons [&hellip;]<\/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\/2387"}],"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=2387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}