{"id":635,"date":"2008-04-06T12:12:16","date_gmt":"2008-04-06T16:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=635"},"modified":"2008-04-06T12:30:56","modified_gmt":"2008-04-06T16:30:56","slug":"accountability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=635","title":{"rendered":"Accountability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can tell a lot about people by how they define their enemy.&nbsp; Everyone knows how <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/04\/04\/AR2008040403088.html\">George Will<\/a> defines his:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;This is the crux of the difference between the two parties &#8212; <strong>belief<br \/>\nin the competence, responsibility and accountability of individuals.<\/strong><br \/>\nWhen Obama characterizes my position as &#8216;little more than watching this<br \/>\ncrisis happen,&#8217; he again has part of a point. The housing market must<br \/>\nfind its bottom, and no good can come from delaying the day that it<br \/>\ndoes.&quot; <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I doubt any serious Democrat would agree with that silly characterization of the &quot;crux of the difference&quot; between the two parties. <\/p>\n<p>Besides, and I might be mistaken, but it seems to me that the Democrats have long been alleging that certain individuals have been incompetent, irresponsible and, unfortunately, unaccountable.&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can tell a lot about people by how they define their enemy.&nbsp; Everyone knows how George Will defines his: &quot;This is the crux of the difference between the two parties &#8212; belief in the competence, responsibility and accountability of individuals. When Obama characterizes my position as &#8216;little more than watching this crisis happen,&#8217; he &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=635\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Accountability<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12],"tags":[101],"class_list":["post-635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-will","category-straw-man","tag-l-straw-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}