{"id":3401,"date":"2005-01-20T10:56:29","date_gmt":"2005-01-20T15:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/3401.html"},"modified":"2005-01-20T10:56:29","modified_gmt":"2005-01-20T15:56:29","slug":"dnc-celebrates-inauguration-in-its-own-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/dnc-celebrates-inauguration-in-its-own-way\/","title":{"rendered":"DNC celebrates inauguration in its own way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some may see this is a little aggressive on a day that supposed to be about celebration and temporary hope for the future, but at this point, it&#8217;s hard to see what the Dems have to lose by playing a little hardball.<\/p>\n<p>Today, a new TV ad, titled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.democrats.org\/news\/200501190001.html\">Ready<\/a>,&#8221; will be airing during the cable news networks&#8217; coverage of Bush&#8217;s inauguration. The spot congratulates him, sort of, but emphasizes what Dems will be fighting for.<\/p>\n<p>You can watch the ad <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democrats.org\/news\/200501190001.html\">online<\/a>, but here&#8217;s the script, as read by DNC Chairman Terry McAuliffe:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mr. President, congratulations. Democrats are eager to work with you. But make no mistake &#8211; we will not abandon our long held principles. <\/p>\n<p>On Social Security, we will not let you undermine its fundamental guarantee. On taxes, we&#8217;ll fight your efforts to shift the burden to working families. And we&#8217;ll demand an honest foreign policy.<\/p>\n<p>So as you swear to uphold the Constitution, we will be standing with you &#8212; making sure you keep that promise for all Americans.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not bad. I&#8217;m not sure if McAuliffe was the ideal choice to &#8220;star&#8221; in the ad, but I am fond of the idea of greeting Bush with a congratulatory message\/warning. The underlying implication seems to be: Enjoy the festivities today, but expect a more aggressive opposition tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some may see this is a little aggressive on a day that supposed to be about celebration and temporary hope for the future, but at this point, it&#8217;s hard to see what the Dems have to lose by playing a little hardball. Today, a new TV ad, titled &#8220;Ready,&#8221; will be airing during the cable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}