{"id":6235,"date":"2006-01-03T11:39:28","date_gmt":"2006-01-03T16:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=6235"},"modified":"2006-01-03T11:39:28","modified_gmt":"2006-01-03T16:39:28","slug":"the-only-rallying-cry-dems-should-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/the-only-rallying-cry-dems-should-need\/","title":{"rendered":"The only rallying cry Dems should need"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Times ran <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washtimes.com\/national\/20060103-124437-6745r.htm\">an item<\/a> today on Dems drafting a campaign strategy that will emphasize privacy issues over the next year. The article explains, of course, that the theme will underscore fights of warrantless-searches, the Alito nomination, and the Patriot Act.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, Republicans are planning to rely on the tricks used during the last midterm cycle.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Senate Republicans say the strategy reminds them of the Democrats &#8212; such as former Sen. Max Cleland of Georgia &#8212; who opposed the creation of the Homeland Security Department after the 2001 terrorist attacks.<\/p>\n<p>One Republican aide said he looks forward to posting pictures of Mr. Cleland around the Capitol during the Patriot Act debate as a warning to Democrats that they will face a similar political demise.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I can only hope this is true. By all means, GOP, post pictures of Cleland everywhere &#8212; and give Dems the only rallying cry they should need for the rest of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Times ran an item today on Dems drafting a campaign strategy that will emphasize privacy issues over the next year. The article explains, of course, that the theme will underscore fights of warrantless-searches, the Alito nomination, and the Patriot Act. Apparently, Republicans are planning to rely on the tricks used during the last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6235","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}