{"id":176783,"date":"2020-03-23T08:34:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T13:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/03\/23\/its-like-watching-brezhnev-in-1981\/"},"modified":"2020-03-23T08:34:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T13:34:00","slug":"its-like-watching-brezhnev-in-1981","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/03\/23\/its-like-watching-brezhnev-in-1981\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Like Watching Brezhnev in 1981"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 330px;\">\n<blockquote data-lang=\"en\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">President Trump and Mitch McConnell are trying to put a corporate bailout ahead of families. It&#8217;s simply wrong. We need to be focused on helping hardworking Americans, communities, and small businesses \u2014 not handing big corporations a blank check. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tMBZm26h3y\">pic.twitter.com\/tMBZm26h3y<\/a><\/div>\n<p>\u2014 Joe Biden (Text Join to 30330) (@JoeBiden) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeBiden\/status\/1242091730872107013?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 23, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>We waited a week for Joe Biden to give a statement on the Covid-19 pandemic, and we got a word salad delivered with all the vigor of Terri Schiavo.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Biden, and his campaign, need to step up their game.<\/p>\n<p>This is not just because he&#8217;s now the front-runner in the Democratic Presidential primary, but because he can not get the media attention necessary to shine the light Donald Trump&#8217;s attempt to make any potential economic bailout from the current emergency a way to line his own pockets.<\/p>\n<p>I understand that Biden and his campaign staff think that the primary is over, and they want to give him a few days off, but they really need to turn the dial to 11 right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump and Mitch McConnell are trying to put a corporate bailout ahead of families. It&#8217;s simply wrong. We need to be focused on helping hardworking Americans, communities, and small businesses \u2014 not handing big corporations a blank check. pic.twitter.com\/tMBZm26h3y \u2014 Joe Biden (Text Join to 30330) (@JoeBiden) March 23, 2020 We waited a week &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":[588,572,374,405,401],"class_list":["post-176783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-fail","tag-pandemic","tag-politics","tag-presidential-campaign","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176783"}],"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=176783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}