{"id":42500,"date":"2014-06-10T18:34:45","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T00:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/10\/for-all-of-you-wishfully-thinking-the-tea-party-is-dead.html"},"modified":"2014-06-11T23:10:43","modified_gmt":"2014-06-12T05:10:43","slug":"for-all-of-you-wishfully-thinking-the-tea-party-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/10\/for-all-of-you-wishfully-thinking-the-tea-party-is-dead.html","title":{"rendered":"For all of you (wishfully) thinking\u00a0the Tea Party is dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">That&#39;s &#8230; pretty staggering. Completely unexpected, from all the news I read.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I have no use for Cantor, to be honest, and my best hope out of this is that it will further fracture the GOP, create some lovely new outrageous quotes from its Far Right fringe, and actually boost the Dems this fall.<\/p>\n<p>But still &#8230; wow.\ufeff<\/p><\/div>\n<p class='gpb-article' style='clear:both;'>\n<div style='overflow:hidden;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n                                                    <img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/qRoWlJy75mQNR8lLEURf-Axl6fh6iR4p7b6lc_FT5qEdyvY7CPa8795YzPU6FOk6aqgG1gG8KHpH779YwFsUW8nGYzDN2lpCtv5CklJ21qVI_iPtOh7BV_F8La2vWqbw-CRJNonvgoYKbJXEBWgsExkm0GMrDiL3GllXG0K7bnB5XCXSpoqTVQ=w506-h303-p' border='0' \/>\n                                                <\/div>\n<p>                                                <a href='http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/virginia-politics\/eric-cantor-faces-tea-party-challenge-tuesday\/2014\/06\/10\/17da5d20-f092-11e3-bf76-447a5df6411f_story.html'>Eric Cantor succumbs to tea party challenger Tuesday<\/a><br \/>\n                                                The House Republican leader succumbs to David Brat, a little-known conservative activist.\n                                            <\/p>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/8GnzrUYmVho' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#39;s &#8230; pretty staggering. Completely unexpected, from all the news I read.\u00a0 I have no use for Cantor, to be honest, and my best hope out of this is that it will further fracture the GOP, create some lovely new outrageous quotes from its Far Right fringe, and actually boost the Dems this fall. But &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/10\/for-all-of-you-wishfully-thinking-the-tea-party-is-dead.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;For all of you (wishfully) thinking\u00a0the Tea Party is dead&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,353],"tags":[586],"class_list":["post-42500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-elections-2014","tag-pluspost"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42516,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42500\/revisions\/42516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}