{"id":991,"date":"2005-06-26T07:04:17","date_gmt":"2005-06-26T11:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=991"},"modified":"2005-06-26T07:04:17","modified_gmt":"2005-06-26T11:04:17","slug":"a-party-without-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2005\/06\/a-party-without-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"A Party Without Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TownHall.com<a href=\"http:\/\/www.townhall.com\/columnists\/charleskrauthammer\/ck20050624.shtml\"> Charles Krauthammer (archive) June 24, 2005<br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\nWASHINGTON &#8212; What has happened to the Democrats over the past few decades is best captured by the phrase (coined by Kevin Phillips) &#8220;reactionary liberalism.&#8221; Spent of new ideas, their only remaining idea is to hang on to the status quo at all costs. <\/p>\n<p>This is true across the board. On Social Security, which is facing an impending demographic and fiscal crisis, they have put absolutely nothing on the table. On presidential appointments &#8212; first, judges; and now ambassador to the United Nations &#8212; they resort to the classic weapon of Southern obstructionism: the filibuster. And on foreign policy, they have nothing to say on the war on terror, the war in Iraq or the burgeoning Arab Spring (except the refrain: &#8220;Guantanamo&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>A quarter-century ago, Daniel Patrick Moynihan noted how it was the Republicans who had become a party of ideas, while the Democrats&#8217; philosophical foundation was &#8220;deeply eroded.&#8221; But even Moynihan would be surprised by the bankruptcy in the Democrats&#8217; current intellectual account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TownHall.com Charles Krauthammer (archive) June 24, 2005 WASHINGTON &#8212; What has happened to the Democrats over the past few decades is best captured by the phrase (coined by Kevin Phillips) &#8220;reactionary liberalism.&#8221; Spent of new ideas, their only remaining idea is to hang on to the status quo at all costs. This is true across &#8230; <a title=\"A Party Without Ideas\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2005\/06\/a-party-without-ideas\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about A Party Without Ideas\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1319,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}