{"id":2808,"date":"2010-04-02T19:19:47","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T23:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/?p=2808"},"modified":"2010-04-02T19:19:47","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T23:19:47","slug":"democrats-joining-tea-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/2010\/04\/02\/democrats-joining-tea-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Joining Tea Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Disgruntled Democrats join the Tea Party<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In this article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2010\/POLITICS\/04\/02\/democrats.tea.party\/\">CNN<\/a>, Democrats tell of &#8216;buyer&#8217;s remorse&#8217; in that they should have paid more attention to who Barack Obama really was before voting for him.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I think we&#8217;ve gone too far on the side of government doing too much,&#8221; Ducket said. &#8220;The Democratic Party is wanting to take care of everyone, instead of helping everybody stand on their own two feet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Roxanne Lewis expressed a similar point of view. A small business owner in Grand Junction, Lewis described herself as a lifelong Democrat and called the president a &#8220;phenomenal speaker.&#8221; She voted for him because she &#8220;believed in what he was saying: change.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But, Lewis added, &#8220;I should&#8217;ve listened a lot closer when he talked about &#8216;spreading the wealth.&#8217; &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Asked how she feels about having voted for the president, Lewis said &#8220;I feel lied to, cheated and raped.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disgruntled Democrats join the Tea Party In this article on CNN, Democrats tell of &#8216;buyer&#8217;s remorse&#8217; in that they should have paid more attention to who Barack Obama really was before voting for him. &#8220;I think we&#8217;ve gone too far on the side of government doing too much,&#8221; Ducket said. &#8220;The Democratic Party is wanting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2809,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2808\/revisions\/2809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}