{"id":2795,"date":"2014-11-17T13:18:34","date_gmt":"2014-11-17T20:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/?p=2795"},"modified":"2014-11-17T13:18:34","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T20:18:34","slug":"facing-the-political-future-a-sadly-personal-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/17\/facing-the-political-future-a-sadly-personal-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"Facing the Political Future: a Sadly Personal Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"ICKES\"<\/a>
Harold Ickes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’ve been hiding from the news, which is weird since I spent most of my life as a journalist. \u00a0I’m not sure though, that after 8 agonizing years of W and then 6 frustrating ones with President Obama (much of it not his fault) I can face what the next congress will do.<\/p>\n

Do you remember the various, endless Clinton hearings? \u00a0Even more than the impeachment battle, the moment that I keep remembering was deeply personal:\u00a0Sen. Alphonse D’Amato\u00a0<\/a>questioning Deputy Chief of Staff (and my longtime friend)\u00a0Harold Ickes<\/a>, whose father, also Harold, had been\u00a0Secretary of the Interior in the Roosevelt Administration<\/a>, and credited with implementation of much of the New Deal.<\/p>\n

His father, D’Amato told Harold, would have been ashamed of him.<\/p>\n

I had worked with Harold when we were all young, so along with political anger came real pain that, beyond the issues, he had faced such very cruel personal grandstanding.<\/p>\n

That’s not important in policy terms and is probably mild compared to the harshness that any witnesses at the pending, inevitable deluge of hearings under a Republican congress will face: two years of destructive power escalating the politics of\u00a0ob<\/i>struction to that of\u00a0de<\/i>struction. \u00a0Beyond what that will mean to our country, poor people, women, immigrants, ACA users, voting rights, Supreme Court nominations, \u00a0and the jeopardy we face around the world, none of which will receive much attention except as political weapons, it’s just not something that will be easy to watch, especially for an unrepentant dreamer like me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been hiding from the news, which is weird since I spent most of my life as a journalist. \u00a0I’m not sure though, that after 8 agonizing years of W and then 6 frustrating ones with President Obama (much of it not his fault) I can face what the next congress will do. Do you … Continue reading Facing the Political Future: a Sadly Personal Perspective<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2877,2,27,1917,9],"tags":[2812,3002,279,760,914,3001,153,3421,3003,92,2999,21,151,3000,917,609,1080,470],"class_list":["post-2795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microblogmonday-2","category-2","category-current-affairs","category-nablopomo","category-politics","tag-microblogmonday","tag-alphone-damato","tag-barack-obama","tag-congress","tag-fdr","tag-harold-ickes","tag-immigration","tag-nablopomo","tag-new-deal","tag-obama","tag-obamacare","tag-politics-2","tag-poverty","tag-republican-congress","tag-roosevelt","tag-supreme-court","tag-voting-rights","tag-womens-rights"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gBq8-J5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2795"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2801,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2795\/revisions\/2801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}