{"id":175501,"date":"2021-02-03T20:32:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T01:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/02\/03\/yeah-about-that\/"},"modified":"2021-02-03T20:32:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T01:32:00","slug":"yeah-about-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/02\/03\/yeah-about-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Yeah, About that"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This strangest thing about this moment is almost every Dem is acting as if Obama&#8217;s first term was a horrible failure but no one wants to explicitly say that. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CuyrgEN6XT\">https:\/\/t.co\/CuyrgEN6XT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jon Walker (@JonWalkerDC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonWalkerDC\/status\/1356643409537110017?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 2, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/L2ig0w5.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/L2ig0w5.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a>So, let&#8217;s do a rundown of the 2009-10 Obama years and what happened:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li>Democratic Governors, from 29 to 16.<\/li>\n<li>Control of state legislatures, and redistricting, from 59% to 31%. (over 1000 state leg seats)<\/li>\n<li>Double digit losses in the Senate.<\/li>\n<li>Over 5 dozen loses in the House.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Why would even the most psychopathic Democrat, or Jim Manchin (but I repeat myself) want even a small piece of such a disaster?<\/p>\n<p>The answer is that they don&#8217;t which indicates that the Democratic Party establishment (There is no Democratic Party establishment) might actually have a small learning curve.<\/p>\n<p>I never believed that I would be able to write that in a non-ironic way. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This strangest thing about this moment is almost every Dem is acting as if Obama&#8217;s first term was a horrible failure but no one wants to explicitly say that. https:\/\/t.co\/CuyrgEN6XT \u2014 Jon Walker (@JonWalkerDC) February 2, 2021 So, let&#8217;s do a rundown of the 2009-10 Obama years and what happened: Democratic Governors, from 29 to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[491,375,588,389,374],"class_list":["post-175501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-barack-obama","tag-elections","tag-fail","tag-history","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175501"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}