{"id":6862,"date":"2006-03-15T12:26:39","date_gmt":"2006-03-15T17:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=6862"},"modified":"2006-03-15T12:26:39","modified_gmt":"2006-03-15T17:26:39","slug":"now-were-the-party-of-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/now-were-the-party-of-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Now, we’re the ‘party of death’"},"content":{"rendered":"

National Review editor Ramesh Ponnuru is about to publish the right-wing’s new favorite book. It’s called — I’m not kidding — “The Party of Death<\/a>: The Democrats, the Media, the Courts, and the Disregard for Human Life.”<\/p>\n

The pitch seems straightforward enough. According to the publisher, Ponnuru’s latest will be “the first book to expose the real agenda of the liberal Democrats,” which apparently is to kill people through abortion and euthanasia.<\/p>\n

The right couldn’t be more excited about the book. Michelle Malkin has called it “the most important book of the year, if not the decade,” and said it will help defeat “the death cult of Planned Parenthood, Howard Dean, and the New York Times.” Rush Limbaugh said Ponnuru’s book “tells the story of how the Democrats became the party of abortion on demand and euthanasia, and lost the support of most Americans in the process.” William F. Buckley, Jr. said the book “will be accepted almost immediately as the seminal statement on human life.”<\/p>\n

To paraphrase Scott McClellan<\/a>, I welcome the debate. Indeed, let’s talk about which party is “the party of death.” Let’s have a serious discussion with the right over issues such as war, stem-cell research, pre-natal care, and life-saving vaccines that they oppose for political reasons<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It’s important to label one side of the political divide the “the party of death”? That’s where our political discourse needs to be? Fine, let’s have the debate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

National Review editor Ramesh Ponnuru is about to publish the right-wing’s new favorite book. It’s called — I’m not kidding — “The Party of Death: The Democrats, the Media, the Courts, and the Disregard for Human Life.” The pitch seems straightforward enough. According to the publisher, Ponnuru’s latest will be “the first book to expose […]<\/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-6862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6862","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=6862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}