{"id":2781,"date":"2010-01-28T22:47:16","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T22:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=2781"},"modified":"2010-01-28T22:59:58","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T22:59:58","slug":"andrew-sullivan-just-jumped-the-sharks-all-of-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=2781","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Sullivan Just Jumped The Sharks&#8230;  ALL OF THEM!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Andrew%20Sullivan%20Just%20Jumped%20The%20Sharks...%20%20ALL%20OF%20THEM%21\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>Two names that should NEVER be compared as being anywhere similar in leadership abilities &#8211;  <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2010\/01\/the-thatcher-in-pelosi.html\">Thatcher and Pelosi<\/a>!\u00a0\u00a0 Oh sure, the &#8220;rhetorical style could easily have come out of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tnr.com\/blog\/the-treatment\/pelosi-yes-we-can\">Maggie&#8217;s mouth<\/a>&#8221; as Andrew says. But style is easily copied; I do it here all the time. And lets face it, Pelosi is not exactly known for being a very competent &#8220;rhetorical stylist&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TAfaIugBEq0&amp;feature=player_embedded#\">when it comes to<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=q15U5VX1MQo&amp;feature=player_embedded#\">verbal skills<\/a>. Either she got lucky here, or she got a better speech writer. Either way, one thing is for sure &#8211; Thatcher was a competent and dynamic leader. Pelosi has demonstrated herself to be anything but. If this WAS Thatcher, health care reform would have passed a month <em>before<\/em> the original deadline. Pelosi is definitely no Thatcher!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Andrew%20Sullivan%20Just%20Jumped%20The%20Sharks...%20%20ALL%20OF%20THEM%21\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>Two names that should NEVER be compared as being anywhere similar in leadership abilities &#8211; Thatcher and Pelosi!\u00a0\u00a0 Oh sure, the &#8220;rhetorical style could easily have come out of Maggie&#8217;s mouth&#8221; as Andrew says. But style is easily copied; I do it here all the time. And lets face it, Pelosi is not exactly known [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[38,21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2781"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2783,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781\/revisions\/2783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}