{"id":3118,"date":"2013-02-13T16:53:08","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T21:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=3118"},"modified":"2013-02-13T16:53:08","modified_gmt":"2013-02-13T21:53:08","slug":"where-were-marco-rubios-new-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2013\/02\/where-were-marco-rubios-new-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"Where were Marco Rubio\u2019s new ideas?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/rubio.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-3119\" alt=\"rubio\" src=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/rubio-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After an election, the winning party typically tries to pass the policies it campaigned on while the losers go back to the drawing board to try to work up a more appealing agenda. But last night\u2019s dueling speeches revealed, strangely, the reverse.<\/p>\n<p>President Obama\u2019s agenda has become much more ambitious since the election, ranging from universal pre-kindergarten to raising the minimum wage to gun control to immigration reform. But neither the Republican Party\u2019s agenda nor its rhetoric has changed a whit.<\/p>\n<p>Ignore the awkward sip of water. That was shoddy advance work \u2014 the water should\u2019ve been closer! \u2014 not poor oratory. Focus simply on the text. Marco Rubio\u2019s response to the State of the Union was like a greatest-hits album from the Romney campaign. If it\u2019s easy to imagine these words coming straight from Mitt Romney\u2019s mouth:<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE:\u00a0<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/wonkblog\/wp\/2013\/02\/13\/where-were-marco-rubios-new-ideas\/\">Where were Marco Rubio\u2019s new ideas?<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After an election, the winning party typically tries to pass the policies it campaigned on while the losers go back to the drawing board to try to work up a more appealing agenda. But last night\u2019s dueling speeches revealed, strangely, the reverse. President Obama\u2019s agenda has become much more ambitious since the election, ranging from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[1650,1649],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3118"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3120,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3118\/revisions\/3120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}