{"id":12293,"date":"2015-01-20T17:01:06","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T00:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/?p=12293"},"modified":"2015-10-31T18:14:02","modified_gmt":"2015-10-31T22:14:02","slug":"potus-post-midterm-agenda-items-timeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/potus-post-midterm-agenda-items-timeline\/","title":{"rendered":"POTUS Post-Midterm Agenda Items [Timeline] #SotU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Say what you will about drones and failed foreign policy (I care about one of those things,  not the other) but c&#8217;mon, <em>paid maternity and paternity leave<\/em>, did you ever think you&#8217;d hear a POTUS even uttering the thought?<\/p>\n<p>Bottom line is: Conservatives Can&#8217;t Keep Up.<\/p>\n<p>For all the rhetoric of Obama&#8217;s &#8220;ineffective&#8221; governance, where is the policy rebuttal? Outrage at even one of these agenda items would be laser-focused and intense, but because he&#8217;s pushing the envelope on so many fronts they simply can&#8217;t focus. Remember all the outrage at Cuba? Immigration? Climate deal with China? Yeah, thought so. People are so &#8220;outraged&#8221; at all those things yet unable to do anything about it or even suggest an alternative. They&#8217;re only <em>against <\/em>that; they know not what they&#8217;re <em>for<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><video loop=\"true\" muted=\"true\" autoplay=\"true\" width=\"620\" height=\"360\"><source src=\"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/WealthyShallowAcornwoodpecker.webm\" type=\"video\/webm\" \/>Your browser does not support the video tag.<\/video><\/p>\n<p>Talk about ineffective governing, I&#8217;m reminded of the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/2009\/01\/19\/on-the-eve-of-change\/\">Decider in Chief<\/a>&#8221; not knowing how to make a decision and the repercussions of that <em>inaction<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m looking forward to tonight&#8217;s SotU speech.<\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Say what you will about drones and failed foreign policy (I care about one of those things, not the other) but c&#8217;mon, paid maternity and paternity leave, did you ever think you&#8217;d hear a POTUS even uttering the thought? Bottom line is: Conservatives Can&#8217;t Keep Up. For all the rhetoric of Obama&#8217;s &#8220;ineffective&#8221; governance, where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[55],"series":[],"class_list":["post-12293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stuffs","tag-obama"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/post-potus.jpg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OfVu-3ch","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12293"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12303,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12293\/revisions\/12303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12293"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=12293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}