{"id":5265,"date":"2010-04-21T17:45:32","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T22:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=5265"},"modified":"2011-01-20T14:38:11","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T19:38:11","slug":"obama-dealing-with-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/04\/21\/obama-dealing-with-democrats\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama dealing with Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-5268\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/04\/Lyndon-Johnson1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Lyndon Johnson\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>History Professor <a title=\"Bruce Schulman\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/history\/faculty.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bruce Schulman<\/a>, author of &#8220;<em>Lyndon B. Johnson and American Liberalism<\/em>,&#8221; asks in a Politico <a title=\"commentary\" href=\"http:\/\/dyn.politico.com\/printstory.cfm?uuid=175D24E0-18FE-70B2-A8116A00CFD94C58\" target=\"_blank\">commentary<\/a>: Will the White House punish Democrats who defected on the monumental health care overhaul?\u00a0 After tracing both Franklin Roosevelt&#8217;s and LBJ&#8217;s successes and failures in dealing with their own political party, Schulman suggests that President Obama is learning how to balance the withholding of support and outright punishment.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Strategically stealing pages from the FDR and LBJ playbooks, Obama may prove a more deft chief legislator than anyone imagined.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Bruce Schulman, 617-353-8306, <a href=\"mailto:bjschulm@bu.edu\">bjschulm@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History Professor Bruce Schulman, author of &#8220;Lyndon B. Johnson and American Liberalism,&#8221; asks in a Politico commentary: Will the White House punish Democrats who defected on the monumental health care overhaul?\u00a0 After tracing both Franklin Roosevelt&#8217;s and LBJ&#8217;s successes and failures in dealing with their own political party, Schulman suggests that President Obama is learning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[1700,943,2716,2717],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5265"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5265"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7776,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5265\/revisions\/7776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}