{"id":23012,"date":"2014-06-11T11:59:26","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T15:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=23012"},"modified":"2014-06-11T11:59:26","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T15:59:26","slug":"the-people-vs-the-establishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=23012","title":{"rendered":"The People vs. The Establishment"},"content":{"rendered":"

The internet is abuzz this morning with interpretations and hand wringing over Eric Cantor<\/a>‘s defeat in the Virginia<\/a> primary.<\/p>\n

The Washington Examiner<\/a> reports:<\/p>\n

One House Republican, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said Cantor’s loss was a \u201cbig win\u201d for President Obama<\/a> because it could empower the more hardline elements in the GOP and damage the effort on the part of some Republicans to broaden the party’s appeal to cross ethnic and gender lines. Cantor lost to college professor<\/a> Dave Brat<\/a>, who campaigned as an anti-immigration<\/a> reform candidate and affiliated with activists and talk radio<\/a> hosts who identify with the Tea Party<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I don’t see this as a win for President Obama–I see it as a win for people who are disgusted with ‘business as usual’ in Washington. Since when do we call people who believe in the Constitution<\/a> and the Tenth Amendment<\/a> radicals? I think our founding fathers would turn over in their graves if they saw what has happened to the nation they birthed.<\/p>\n

Elections are the way Americans<\/a> can express their satisfaction (or dissatisfaction) with their leaders. I think the Americans in Eric Cantor’s district just made their opinion very clear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The internet is abuzz this morning with interpretations and hand wringing over Eric Cantor‘s defeat in the Virginia primary. The Washington Examiner reports: One House Republican, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said Cantor’s loss was a \u201cbig win\u201d … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[97,7694,53,562,164,528,285,1413,615],"class_list":["post-23012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-barack-obama","tag-dave-brat","tag-eric-cantor","tag-obama","tag-republican","tag-tea-party","tag-united-states","tag-virginia","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23013,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23012\/revisions\/23013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}