{"id":578,"date":"2009-01-09T13:28:09","date_gmt":"2009-01-09T11:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ofcourseimright.com\/?p=578"},"modified":"2009-01-09T13:28:09","modified_gmt":"2009-01-09T11:28:09","slug":"who-needs-an-opposition-party-weve-got-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/?p=578","title":{"rendered":"Who needs an opposition party?  We&#8217;ve got Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-579\" style=\"border: 0pt none; margin-left: 4px; margin-right: 4px;\" title=\"Roosevelt\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ofcourseimright.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/fdroosevelt.gif\" alt=\"Roosevelt\" width=\"160\" height=\"123\" \/>As long as I could recall, we Democrats have prided ourselves on being the &#8220;Big Tent&#8221; party.\u00a0 This probably stems from a combination of deft political maneuvering by FDR and a singular hatred of the Republicans after the stock market crash of 1929.\u00a0 The downside of the big tent is that nobody inside agrees on much.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/01\/09\/us\/politics\/09obama.html?_r=1&amp;hp\">Here<\/a> is an article by Peter Baker and David Herszenhorn of the New York Times that talks about how <em><strong>allies<\/strong><\/em> in the U.S. Senate are criticizing President-elect Obama and his team about a stimulus package that they claim looks a little too much like trickle-down economics.\u00a0 Everyone agrees that we need more jobs created.\u00a0 Even Republicans!\u00a0 But nobody agrees on how to go about it. President Bush was the darling of the party (not to mention their leader), and was able to set the agenda.\u00a0 But he certainly did that with a lot of support from Republican congressional leaders.\u00a0 Obama doesn&#8217;t seem to be doing the same.<\/p>\n<p>This does not bode well for the next administration.\u00a0 If Democrats form a circular firing squad, as they did in 1994, we can expect a Republican Congress just two years from now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As long as I could recall, we Democrats have prided ourselves on being the &#8220;Big Tent&#8221; party.\u00a0 This probably stems from a combination of deft political maneuvering by FDR and a singular hatred of the Republicans after the stock market crash of 1929.\u00a0 The downside of the big tent is that nobody inside agrees on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/?p=578\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Who needs an opposition party?  We&#8217;ve got Democrats&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,15],"tags":[224,130,493],"class_list":["post-578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-stupid-stuff","tag-congress","tag-obama","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":582,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions\/582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}