{"id":3995,"date":"2018-12-30T09:58:50","date_gmt":"2018-12-30T08:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=3995"},"modified":"2018-12-30T17:27:03","modified_gmt":"2018-12-30T16:27:03","slug":"owning-wit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=3995","title":{"rendered":"Owning wit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/dec\/30\/nancy-pelosi-trumps-easy-ride-ends-with-democrat-speaker-house\">David Taylor<\/a>, Guardian US deputy news editor:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In one deft performance the top Democrat in the House owned the president, having faced down Republicans&#8216; scare tactics and attacks from her own side<\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi walked out of the White House into brilliant sunshine in sunglasses and a fiery red coat\u00a0looking triumphant\u00a0and returned to Capitol Hill to make jokes about Trump\u2019s manhood and utter the memorable description: \u201cIt goes to show you: you get into a tickle contest with a skunk, you get tinkle all over you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The confrontation showed that Pelosi can outwit Trump.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Taylor&#8217;s piece seems to have been written without irony.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u03a9\u00a0\u03a9\u00a0\u03a9<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m continuing to enjoy\u00a0<em>Wer wir sein k\u00f6nnten<\/em>.\u00a0This week <em>Die Zeit\u00a0<\/em>has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zeit.de\/kultur\/2018-12\/robert-habeck-gruene-politik-literatur-krise\">a piece on Habeck<\/a> with the lead:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In diesem Jahr haben sich viele gefragt, was den Gr\u00fcnen Robert Habeck von anderen Politikern unterscheidet. Die Antwort k\u00f6nnte lauten: Er hat Literatur studiert.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I found this witty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Taylor, Guardian US deputy news editor: In one deft performance the top Democrat in the House owned the president, having faced down Republicans&#8216; scare tactics and attacks from her own side \u2026 Pelosi walked out of the White House &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=3995\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}