{"id":2364,"date":"2009-08-12T19:25:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T23:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2364"},"modified":"2009-08-12T19:25:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-12T23:25:00","slug":"natural-governing-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2364","title":{"rendered":"Natural Governing Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Radwanski is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/blogs\/radwanski\/perception-vs-reality\/article1248295\/\">spot on today<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">Yes, it&#8217;s not hard to dislike Stephen Harper if you watch him on a day-to-day basis. But in the big-picture sense, it&#8217;s not entirely clear to your average person what it is that&#8217;s fundamentally wrong with his government.<\/p>\n<p>The opposition, to this point, has done a lousy job of framing the case against the Conservatives &#8211; because fundamentally, it&#8217;s yet to disagree with it on major issues of economic stewardship (at least since January&#8217;s budget), major social priorities, foreign policy&#8230;anything, really. There&#8217;s hasn&#8217;t even been a convincing, consistent argument that the government is economically incompetent &#8211; admittedly a tough case to make when it more or less adopted your budget demands<\/p>\n<p>Instead, policy differences like the trumped-up EI spat are predicated on the notion that all you need is an excuse to bring it down, and that all Canadians are looking for is an excuse to replace it. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Radwanski is spot on today: Yes, it&#8217;s not hard to dislike Stephen Harper if you watch him on a day-to-day basis. But in the big-picture sense, it&#8217;s not entirely clear to your average person what it is that&#8217;s fundamentally wrong with his government. The opposition, to this point, has done a lousy job of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2364"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}