{"id":3058,"date":"2015-08-06T11:24:41","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T15:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=3058"},"modified":"2015-08-06T11:24:41","modified_gmt":"2015-08-06T15:24:41","slug":"republican-presidential-candidates-show-us-you-can-fixgov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/republican-presidential-candidates-show-us-you-can-fixgov\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Presidential Candidates: Show Us You Can #FixGov"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3059\" style=\"width: 318px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/FL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3059\" data-attachment-id=\"3059\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/republican-presidential-candidates-show-us-you-can-fixgov\/fl\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/FL.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"308,83\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1185157759&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"FL\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Source: Hunter S. Thompson: Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail &amp;#8217;72&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/FL-300x81.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/FL.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3059\" src=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/FL.jpg\" alt=\"Source: Hunter S. Thompson: Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72\" width=\"308\" height=\"83\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/FL.jpg 308w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/FL-300x81.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 308px) 100vw, 308px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3059\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Hunter S. Thompson: Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail &#8217;72<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In such an overcrowded field, the candidates will be under pressure to make their voice heard. There will be plenty of the usual Pablum: repeal Obamacare, no gun control, cut taxes, protect religious freedom and so forth. With everyone hitting most of the same notes (and trying to out-shout Trump), there is a real opportunity for a candidate to distinguish himself by explaining in detail how to fix government.<\/p>\n<p>This is a decidedly juicy topic for conservatives&#8230;.(Read more at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/blogs\/fixgov\/posts\/2015\/08\/06-republican-presidential-candidates-fixgov-kosar-booth\">Brookings Institution FixGov Blog<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In such an overcrowded field, the candidates will be under pressure to make their voice heard. There will be plenty of the usual Pablum: repeal Obamacare, no gun control, cut taxes, protect religious freedom and so forth. With everyone hitting most of the same notes (and trying to out-shout Trump), there is a real opportunity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[185],"tags":[168],"class_list":["post-3058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-oversight","tag-brookings-institution"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-Nk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3060,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3058\/revisions\/3060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}