{"id":5823,"date":"2010-02-16T20:27:07","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T03:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/?p=5823"},"modified":"2010-02-16T20:27:07","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T03:27:07","slug":"america-is-not-ungovernable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/?p=5823","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;America is Not Ungovernable&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From:\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/horseraceblog\/2010\/02\/america_is_not_ungovernable.html\"><strong>RealClearPolitics HorseRaceBlog By Jay Cost<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;Recently, some analysts have suggested that the lack of major policy breakthroughs in the last year is due to the fact that America has become ungovernable. Ezra Klein <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/12\/23\/AR2009122301319.html\">argued<\/a> that it was time to reform the filibuster because the government cannot function with it intact anymore.  Tom Friedman <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/31\/opinion\/31friedman.html\">suggested<\/a> that America&#8217;s &#8220;political instability&#8221; was making people abroad nervous.  And Michael Cohen of <em>Newsweek<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/id\/232451\/page\/1\">blamed<\/a> &#8220;obstructionist Republicans,&#8221; &#8220;spineless Democrats,&#8221; and an &#8220;incoherent public&#8221; for the problem.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Nonsense.  America is not ungovernable.  Her President has simply not been up to the job.&#8221;<\/h4>\n<p>Read the rest at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/horseraceblog\/2010\/02\/america_is_not_ungovernable.html\"><strong>RealClearPolitics HorseRaceBlog By Jay Cost<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>~Curtis in \/\\\/\\onTana! {!-{&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From:\u00c2\u00a0 RealClearPolitics HorseRaceBlog By Jay Cost &#8220;Recently, some analysts have suggested that the lack of major policy breakthroughs in the last year is due to the fact that America has become ungovernable. Ezra Klein argued that it was time to reform the filibuster because the government cannot function with it intact anymore. Tom Friedman suggested [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5823"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5826,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5823\/revisions\/5826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}