{"id":2780,"date":"2010-09-23T16:39:31","date_gmt":"2010-09-23T23:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=2780"},"modified":"2010-09-23T16:39:31","modified_gmt":"2010-09-23T23:39:31","slug":"the-gop-pledge-to-america-is-an-allegiance-to-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=2780","title":{"rendered":"The GOP Pledge To America Is An Allegiance To The Past"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Republican Pledge to America is just another lousy product from GOP, Inc. It is nothing more than a rehash of their failed programs from the past.<\/p>\n

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Already the reception the Pledge has received is decidedly negative – from both sides of the aisle. While Democrats correctly point out that the Pledge is old news and leftovers, Republicans like Erick Erickson and Neil Boortz are criticizing it because it doesn’t go far enough (into Delusionland). This Pledge has managed to disappoint everyone, and it did so by design. John Boehner, the Pledge’s Godfather, introduced the Pledge by saying…<\/p>\n

Boehner:<\/strong> “We are not going to be any different than what we’ve been.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s comforting. And to prove it, the Pledge’s development was overseen by a former lobbyist<\/a> for some of the nation’s most powerful oil, pharmaceutical, and insurance companies. Same old same old GOP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Republican Pledge to America is just another lousy product from GOP, Inc. It is nothing more than a rehash of their failed programs from the past. Already the reception the Pledge has received is decidedly negative – from both sides of the aisle. While Democrats correctly point out that the Pledge is old news […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[152,1],"tags":[301],"class_list":["post-2780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election","category-general","tag-republicans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-IQ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":31282,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=31282","url_meta":{"origin":2780,"position":0},"title":"Loyalty Loath: The GOP Pledge Of Allegiance Goes Up In Flames","author":"Mark NC","date":"3\/30\/2016","format":false,"excerpt":"When Donald Trump announced his candidacy in June of last year it was widely speculated that he would ditch the Republican Party if it failed to give him the party crown to which he feels entitled. 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