{"id":2521,"date":"2008-05-23T11:37:48","date_gmt":"2008-05-23T15:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=2521"},"modified":"2008-05-23T11:37:48","modified_gmt":"2008-05-23T15:37:48","slug":"unifying-narratives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=2521","title":{"rendered":"Unifying Narratives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The very model of a modern partisan hack, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patrickruffini.com\/2008\/05\/22\/unifying-narratives-work-microtrends-fail\/\">Patrick Ruffini<\/a>, inadvertently illustrates why the current GOP is an utter failure:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The problem with the current \u201cagendas\u201d on offer is that they\u2019re small-bore. They act as though we were still in the majority and our job was to fine-tune the workings of government. It\u2019s not. In the minority, our job is to 1) make the majority\u2019s life miserable, grinding the House and Senate floors to a halt, and building a narrative of the Democrats as broken and incompetent, and 2) offer big, bold alternatives to this mess like the Contract did in 1994.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Instead of governing, working to make America a better place, leading, etc., Ruffini thinks it's the job of the Republican minority to grind the government to a halt, in hopes that people will vote the GOP back in out of sheer frustration with the lack of government action - inaction which the GOP itself caused. <\/p>\n<p>Step 1: Control the government<br \/>\nStep 2: Profit<br \/>\nStep 3: ????<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The very model of a modern partisan hack, Patrick Ruffini, inadvertently illustrates why the current GOP is an utter failure: The problem with the current \u201cagendas\u201d on offer is that they\u2019re small-bore. They act as though we were still in the majority and our job was to fine-tune the workings of government. It\u2019s not. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}