{"id":1677,"date":"2009-12-14T11:02:28","date_gmt":"2009-12-14T10:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1677"},"modified":"2009-12-14T11:02:28","modified_gmt":"2009-12-14T10:02:28","slug":"is-the-us-political-system-broken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1677","title":{"rendered":"Is the US political system broken?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least one well-informed commentator thinks so. In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/cifamerica\/2009\/dec\/13\/america-broken-political-system-obama\">a piece<\/a> in today&#8217;s &#8220;Guardian&#8221;, Michael Tomasky writes: <blockquote<\/a>&#8220;Our founders wanted a system that moved slowly. Do they ever have it. In fact, we now have a system that barely moves at all. Watching American politics through British eyes, you must be utterly mystified as to why Barack Obama hasn&#8217;t gotten this healthcare bill passed yet. Many Americans are too.&#8221;<\/blockquote<\/a>\nYou can read my description of the American political system <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/Americanpoliticalsystem.html\">here<\/a> and my comparison with the British political system <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/USvsUK.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least one well-informed commentator thinks so. In a piece in today&#8217;s &#8220;Guardian&#8221;, Michael Tomasky writes:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}