{"id":4989,"date":"2004-09-02T02:41:02","date_gmt":"2004-09-02T06:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2004\/09\/02\/the-grand-old-rocky-party\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:58:28","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:58:28","slug":"the-grand-old-rocky-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2004\/09\/02\/the-grand-old-rocky-party\/","title":{"rendered":"The Grand Old Rocky<\/i> Party"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tonight’s RNC speeches left me with a bad case of agita<\/EM>, and no appetite for political propaganda <\/FONT>from either party.  So, I was surprised to find my weary self fully engaged in <\/FONT><\/FONT>Christopher Lydon<\/FONT><\/A>‘s <\/FONT>latest post, <\/FONT><\/FONT>It’s Rockefeller’s Party<\/FONT><\/EM><\/A> (Sept. 1, 2004).  His thoughtful, urgent message on the nature of the <\/FONT>Republican Party needs to be considered by everyone <\/FONT>interested in the politics and future of our nation.  <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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The GOP is not the heir to Reaganite conservatism,<\/EM> says Lydon.  It is the Grand Old Rockefeller<\/EM> Party.  <\/STRONG> <\/FONT>This <\/EM><\/FONT><\/FONT>GORP<\/FONT><\/A> isn’t fueled with raisins, nuts, and seeds grown in the soil of California extremism. [<\/FONT>click<\/FONT><\/A> for the rest of this piece]<\/FONT>  <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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— haiku<\/FONT> by <\/FONT><\/FONT>Kobayashi Issa<\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/A>, <\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/FONT>translated by <\/FONT>David G. Lanoue<\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/A>  <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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tired of listeningthe man walks away…cicada on a branch     I like artful wordplay and advocacy, but over-the-top mendacity sets my stomach spinning. Tonight’s RNC speeches left me with a bad case of agita, and no appetite for political propaganda from either party.  So, I was surprised to find my weary self fully engaged in Christopher […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2926],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pre-06-2006"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-1it","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13647,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4989\/revisions\/13647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}