{"id":6100,"date":"2011-07-31T17:54:51","date_gmt":"2011-07-31T08:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/haakondahl.com\/blog\/?p=1613"},"modified":"2011-07-31T17:54:51","modified_gmt":"2011-07-31T08:54:51","slug":"john-kerry-scores-an-own-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/john-kerry-scores-an-own-goal\/","title":{"rendered":"John Kerry Scores an Own Goal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I agree with Senator John Kerry:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You know the Chinese are looking at us right now and they are just gleeful and incredulous at the way in which one of the great competitors is imploding on itself, because a group of absolutists and extremists don&#8217;t understand the implication of what they are doing, and prepared to hold the entire economy hostage and it is unprecedented of anything I have seen in all of the time I have been in public life, and I think it is damaging and dangerous and reckless and irresponsible,&#8221; Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) told MSNBC.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2011\/07\/29\/kerry_tea_party_a_group_of_absolutists_who_dont_understand_what_theyre_doing.html\">Kerry: Tea Party A &#8220;Group Of Absolutists&#8221; Who Don&#8217;t Understand What They&#8217;re Doing | RealClearPolitics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I just disagree with him about precisely whom the Chinese find so ruinous to America. \u00a0The absolutists without understanding are those whose every thought is bent toward increasing the burden of government upon the citizenry. \u00a0It is indeed &#8220;damaging and dangerous and reckless and irresponsible&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"pld-like-dislike-wrap pld-template-1\">\r\n    <div class=\"pld-like-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"6100\" data-trigger-type=\"like\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-up\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-like-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\">    <\/span>\r\n<\/div><div class=\"pld-dislike-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-dislike-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"6100\" data-trigger-type=\"dislike\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-down\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-dislike-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\"><\/span>\r\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I agree with Senator John Kerry:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You know the Chinese are looking at us right now and they are just gleeful and incredulous at the way in which one of the great competitors is imploding on itself, because a group of absolutists and extremists don&#8217;t understand the implication of what they are doing, and prepared to hold the entire economy hostage and it is unprecedented of anything I have seen in all of the time I have been in public life, and I think it is damaging and dangerous and reckless and irresponsible,&#8221; Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) told MSNBC.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2011\/07\/29\/kerry_tea_party_a_group_of_absolutists_who_dont_understand_what_theyre_doing.html\">Kerry: Tea Party A &#8220;Group Of Absolutists&#8221; Who Don&#8217;t Understand What They&#8217;re Doing | RealClearPolitics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I just disagree with him about precisely whom the Chinese find so &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/john-kerry-scores-an-own-goal\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34128,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[234,240,251,266],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-politics","category-conservative","category-marxism","category-tea-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}