{"id":2064,"date":"2009-09-10T02:00:38","date_gmt":"2009-09-10T10:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=2064"},"modified":"2009-09-14T16:12:44","modified_gmt":"2009-09-15T00:12:44","slug":"better-keep-your-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=2064","title":{"rendered":"Better Keep Your Head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"?p=2047\">predicting response to the speech yester-day of President Obama<\/a>, I certainly did <em>not<\/em> anticipate <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20090910\/ap_on_go_pr_wh\/us_health_care_heckling\">the outburst by Joe Wilson<\/a>.<\/p> <p>Pericles once noted that the choices of a leader should be informed by the fact that he would not <em>always<\/em> be the leader.<\/p> <p>Our two major political parties need to remember, when in opposition, that their presumption is that they will not <em>always<\/em> be in opposition.  Their behaviors when in opposition set precedents that will be followed by each other party when it is forced into opposition.  The next time that we have a Republican President speaking before Congress, there will be less to prevent a Democrat from heckling him or her.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In predicting response to the speech yester-day of President Obama, I certainly did not anticipate the outburst by Joe Wilson. Pericles once noted that the choices of a leader should be informed by the fact that he would not always be the leader. Our two major political parties need to remember, when in opposition, that [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,104,4],"tags":[135,699,701,45,700],"class_list":["post-2064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-ideology-philosophy","category-news","category-public","tag-barack-obama","tag-democrats","tag-joe-wilson","tag-obama","tag-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}