{"id":32401,"date":"2018-09-19T23:02:25","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T23:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32401"},"modified":"2018-09-19T23:02:25","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T23:02:25","slug":"age-old-dilemma-plays-out-to-this-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32401","title":{"rendered":"Age-old dilemma plays out to this day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Politicians have been waging this struggle probably since the beginning of politics as we&#8217;ve come to know it.<\/p>\n<p>Do we treat politicians on our side with the same critical look as we do those on other side of the political divide?<\/p>\n<p>Probably not.<\/p>\n<p>I wrote about this dilemma in July 2014. I want to share it again.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/2014\/07\/do-we-ignore-our-guys-missteps\/<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll admit to my own bias on this regard. I figure it&#8217;s a natural reaction. It&#8217;s likely better, though, for us to react more vigorously when our guys mess up than when those on the other side do. Don&#8217;t we <em>expect<\/em> our guys to behave properly at all times? We ought to demand it of them and when they fail to deliver we should drop-kick them squarely in the backside.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, we don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Look around us at this moment. The president keeps demonstrating his crassness. Those in his own party dismiss the criticism. Those in the other party become apoplectic. Shouldn&#8217;t the president&#8217;s fellow Republicans be as outraged as Democrats? Just wondering, man.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politicians have been waging this struggle probably since the beginning of politics as we&#8217;ve come to know it. Do we treat politicians on our side with the same critical look as we do those on other side of the political divide? Probably not. I wrote about this dilemma in July 2014. I want to share &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32401\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Age-old dilemma plays out to this day<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[608,1424],"class_list":["post-32401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-bias","tag-donald-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32403,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32401\/revisions\/32403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}