{"id":15874,"date":"2009-11-02T16:00:43","date_gmt":"2009-11-02T16:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/salena_zito_mood_sours_towards_both_parties\/"},"modified":"2009-11-02T16:00:43","modified_gmt":"2009-11-02T16:00:43","slug":"salena_zito_mood_sours_towards_both_parties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=15874","title":{"rendered":"Salena Zito: Mood Sours Towards Both Parties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What does all of this mean?<\/p>\n<p>Populism is on the rise and conservatism is gaining steam, perhaps at its own expense. (If Hoffman loses in New York, it almost ensures that the Northeast will be almost exclusively Democrat-blue territory).<\/p>\n<p>A sour mood exists among people, with close-to-10-percent unemployment, decreasing health-care benefits and rising taxes &#8211; and a view that the well-heeled get bailed-out but John and Joan Q. Citizen do not.<\/p>\n<p>Because our political system was designed to be slow and laborious and to do little, that sour mood grows rather than dissipates.<\/p>\n<p>These political conditions have made the difficult course of lawmaking become nearly impossible, and governing has become highly averse to coherent action.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2009\/11\/01\/mood_sours_towards_both_parties___98965.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does all of this mean? Populism is on the rise and conservatism is gaining steam, perhaps at its own expense. (If Hoffman loses in New York, it almost ensures that the Northeast will be almost exclusively Democrat-blue territory). A<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=15874\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,209,149,617,597,616,151,667,129,618,619,596],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-economy","category-house-of-representatives","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-psychology","category-senate","category-state-government","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}