{"id":4569,"date":"2014-01-27T17:14:57","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T17:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=4569"},"modified":"2014-01-27T17:14:57","modified_gmt":"2014-01-27T17:14:57","slug":"battle-of-the-bases-looms-in-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=4569","title":{"rendered":"Battle of the Bases looms in 2014"},"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>It&#8217;s looking like President Obama is going to toss aside any pretense of bipartisanship when he stands before the Congress on Tuesday night for his State of the Union speech.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s call it the next shot in the Battle of the Political Bases.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"CQr3tWS2uq\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/196451-obamas-big-speech-banging-base-drum\/\">Obama\u2019s big speech: Banging base drum<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Obama\u2019s big speech: Banging base drum&#8221; &#8212; The Hill\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/196451-obamas-big-speech-banging-base-drum\/embed\/#?secret=wH4nyCzhla#?secret=CQr3tWS2uq\" data-secret=\"CQr3tWS2uq\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The president is going to call for wage equality, which will please his liberal base and displease the conservative base.<\/p>\n<p>The liberals comprise the bedrock of the Democratic Party &#8212; to which Obama belongs. The conservatives make up the foundation of the Republican Party &#8212; to which most House members belong.<\/p>\n<p>I was rather hoping the president would seek more of a middle-road approach to governing. Silly me. I guess he&#8217;s grown weary of the continuing battles he keeps waging with intransigent GOP lawmakers who keep insisting he give more, more, and more still. <\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s ceded ground on tax policy. That hasn&#8217;t been enough. Spending policies have resulted in dramatic reductions in the budget deficit. That, too, is insufficient. Obama promised to close Guantanamo Bay&#8217;s terrorist holding camp. It remains open, which should please the other guys &#8212; but apparently it hasn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>So now he&#8217;s going to the mat on wage inequality. The plan apparently is for him to reveal it all in his State of the Union address.<\/p>\n<p>Do not look for a hint of bipartisan agreement on that one, folks. <\/p>\n<p>The bipartisan political warfare will go on.<\/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>It&#8217;s looking like President Obama is going to toss aside any pretense of bipartisanship when he stands before the Congress on Tuesday night for his State of the Union speech. Let&#8217;s call it the next shot in the Battle of the Political Bases. Obama\u2019s big speech: Banging base drum The president is going to call &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=4569\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Battle of the Bases looms in 2014<\/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":[1],"tags":[3708,4401,5148],"class_list":["post-4569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-president-obama","tag-state-of-the-union","tag-wage-inequality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4569","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=4569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}