{"id":4363,"date":"2011-06-13T11:48:36","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T16:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=4363"},"modified":"2011-06-13T11:48:36","modified_gmt":"2011-06-13T16:48:36","slug":"democrats-meet-your-new-spokesperson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=4363","title":{"rendered":"Democrats, Meet Your New Spokesperson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Democratic National Committee has someone new at the helm, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0611\/56666.html\" target=\"_blank\">she&#8217;s off to a great start<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In the four weeks since she succeeded Tim Kaine, Wasserman Schultz has been called out by four nonpartisan fact-checkers for mischaracterizing the GOP\u2019s Medicare plan.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s accused Republicans of wanting to reinstate segregation and of waging a \u201cwar on women.\u201d She has asserted, somewhat nonsensically, that the GOP wants to make illegal immigration \u2014 by definition against the law \u2014 \u201ca crime.\u201d She\u2019s also been mocked for driving a foreign car after pounding Republicans for not supporting the American auto industry.<\/p>\n<p>A rank-and-file member of Congress typically wouldn\u2019t get noticed for inflammatory language and rhetorical slip-ups. But Wasserman Schultz has a higher profile now \u2014 and was hired precisely because of her skills as a communicator.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On the bright side, she has nowhere to go but up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Democratic National Committee has someone new at the helm, and she&#8217;s off to a great start. In the four weeks since she succeeded Tim Kaine, Wasserman Schultz has been called out by four nonpartisan fact-checkers for mischaracterizing the GOP\u2019s Medicare plan. She\u2019s accused Republicans of wanting to reinstate segregation and of waging a \u201cwar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,9,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-doug","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}