{"id":185325,"date":"2011-07-29T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-29T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/07\/29\/when-joke-line-calls-out-republicans-they-have-jumped-the-shark\/"},"modified":"2011-07-29T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T22:00:00","slug":"when-joke-line-calls-out-republicans-they-have-jumped-the-shark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/07\/29\/when-joke-line-calls-out-republicans-they-have-jumped-the-shark\/","title":{"rendered":"When Joke Line Calls Out Republicans, They Have Jumped the Shark."},"content":{"rendered":"
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This is one big shark that they jumped.
One With Frikken Lasers!<\/div>\n

In fact, this is an indication that they are jumping C. Megalodon.*<\/sup><\/p>\n

Because Time Magazine<\/i>‘s Joe Kline, the man who has made a career of hating on liberals and sucking up to Republicans, to the degree that he wrote a bio of Woody Guthrie that treated his politics (“This machine (his guitar) kills fascists”) as a sort of an idiot-savant phenomenon, has finally been forced to find the current behavior of Republicans to be beyond the pals<\/a>:<\/p>\n

And so, here we are. Our nation\u2019s economy and international reputation as the world\u2019s presiding grownup has already been badly damaged. It is a self-inflicted wound of monumental stupidity. I am usually willing to acknowledge that Democrats can be as silly, and hidebound, as Republicans\u2013but not this time. There is zero equivalence here. The vast majority of Democrats have been more than reasonable, more than willing to accept cuts in some of their most valued programs.<\/b> Given the chance, there was the likelihood that they would have surrendered their most powerful weapon in next year\u2019s election\u2013a Mediscare campaign\u2013by agreeing to some necessary long-term reforms in that program. The President, remarkably, proposed raising the age of eligibility for Medicare to 67.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(emphasis mine<\/i>)<\/p>\n

Joe Klein has made a career out of saying that both sides are wrong, and when you’ve lost him, it says that you not only crossed a line, but you crossed that line a very long time ago<\/b>. <\/p>\n

*<\/sup>The largest shark, and likely largest predator fish ever<\/a>. It died out some 1.5 million years ago. The Genus is still in dispute, between either Carcharodon (Great White) or Carcharocles (broad toothed Mako). But in either case, you are jumping C. Megalodon, you have jumped the biggest shark ever.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is one big shark that they jumped.One With Frikken Lasers! In fact, this is an indication that they are jumping C. Megalodon.* Because Time Magazine‘s Joe Kline, the man who has made a career of hating on liberals and sucking up to Republicans, to the degree that he wrote a bio of Woody Guthrie …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1038,1064,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-media","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185325"}],"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=185325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}