{"id":185166,"date":"2011-09-22T21:10:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-23T02:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/09\/22\/quote-of-the-day-195\/"},"modified":"2011-09-22T21:10:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-23T02:10:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-195","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/09\/22\/quote-of-the-day-195\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Politico<\/i>, who always shorts Democratic Party Prospects, is saying that the Democrats&#8217; chances of retaking the house are not good, and they <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0911\/64096.html\">uncork this one<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>Now, resigned to the likelihood that<b><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\"> the president will be a down-ballot drag in many races<\/span><\/b> and absent signs of an electoral wave on the horizon, Democrats are scaling back their expectations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<i>emphasis mine<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p>I tend to think of <i>Politico<\/i> as a bunch of shallow inside the beltway lizard brains (as in medulla oblongata), but they nailed it here.<\/p>\n<p>Obama is a huge drag on the ticket, and the 2010 results, which were a reversal of historical proportions were the direct result of nationalizing the election and making Obama the issue.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m beginning to think that the eventual Republican nominee will have to do the equivalent of, &#8220;putting half a dozen children on a spit, and toasting them at the flame that comes out of their mouth,&#8221; to paraphrase Christopher Fry, in order for Obama to win.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily for him, all the &#8216;Phants seem intent on doing this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politico, who always shorts Democratic Party Prospects, is saying that the Democrats&#8217; chances of retaking the house are not good, and they uncork this one: Now, resigned to the likelihood that the president will be a down-ballot drag in many races and absent signs of an electoral wave on the horizon, Democrats are scaling back &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1142,1000,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-elections","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185166"}],"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=185166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}