{"id":18227,"date":"2010-11-03T00:43:38","date_gmt":"2010-11-03T04:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=18227"},"modified":"2010-11-03T00:43:38","modified_gmt":"2010-11-03T04:43:38","slug":"18227","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/11\/03\/18227\/","title":{"rendered":"The Party of Nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RzHcqcXo_NA<\/p>\n<p>The Republicans elected a lot of candidates tonight who &#8212; judging by the behavior of their compatriots &#8212; will be eager to collect the graft that will shortly be coming their way from big oil and Wall Street.\u00a0 But not the one above, who represents everything that is wrong with the Palin brand of Republicanism, and, happily, went down to defeat in her bid to become the junior Senator from Delaware.<\/p>\n<p>The Republicans are nihilists at this point.\u00a0 They stand for nothing but gaining and holding onto power while comforting the comfortable and afflicting the afflicted.\u00a0 They&#8217;re not even republicans in any meaningful sense.\u00a0 They are plutocrats who make it clear by their actions that their vision of America is heartless predation affirmed by the Constitution.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s see how far that gets them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RzHcqcXo_NA The Republicans elected a lot of candidates tonight who &#8212; 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