{"id":3426,"date":"2009-07-15T11:01:44","date_gmt":"2009-07-15T16:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=3426"},"modified":"2009-07-15T11:01:44","modified_gmt":"2009-07-15T16:01:44","slug":"cokie-roberts-thinks-the-rule-of-law-might-be-more-important-than-a-pleasant-atmosphere-in-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=3426","title":{"rendered":"Cokie Roberts Thinks the Rule of Law Might Be More Important Than A Pleasant Atmosphere in Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[digg-reddit-me]When I heard Cokie Roberts saying this on Sunday my jaw dropped:<br \/>\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/BkjnoFA6MaU&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>The self-centeredness of the response &#8211; and the fact that she showed no shame about explaining this as her reasoning on national television when she was supposed to be acting as a serious commentator. Though it is pretty awesome that she is willing to undergo the inconvenience of the &#8220;bad atmosphere&#8221; in Washington as a result of attempting to uphold the Rule of Law. I&#8217;m glad she is willing to make the sacrifice for the rest of us.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s pretty telling that committing war crimes isn&#8217;t what is credited with souring the mood &#8211; but instead the blame is foisted onto those who uphold the law&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[digg-reddit-me]When I heard Cokie Roberts saying this on Sunday my jaw dropped: The self-centeredness of the response &#8211; and the fact that she showed no shame about explaining this as her reasoning on national television when she was supposed to be acting as a serious commentator. Though it is pretty awesome that she is willing [&hellip;]<\/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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[36,367,4],"tags":[2052,69,2053,1261],"class_list":["post-3426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-national-security","category-politics","tag-cokie-roberts","tag-rule-of-law","tag-this-week","tag-this-week-with-george-stephanopoulos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-Tg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3426"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3442,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3426\/revisions\/3442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}