{"id":185489,"date":"2014-11-04T23:52:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T04:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/11\/04\/needless-to-say-i-wish-that-i-wasnt-right\/"},"modified":"2014-11-04T23:52:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T04:52:00","slug":"needless-to-say-i-wish-that-i-wasnt-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/11\/04\/needless-to-say-i-wish-that-i-wasnt-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Needless to Say, I Wish that I Wasn&#8217;t Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Republicans have taken over the Senate, as <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2014\/10\/why-republicans-will-take-senate-in.html\">I predicted 12 days ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, I am kind of bummed about being right.<\/p>\n<p>I expect there to be pressure in the next Congress to impeach Obama, and in response, I expect Obama to try to gut Social Security and Medicare.<\/p>\n<p>I would also lay even odds that, in the spirit of <strike>hope and change<\/strike> <strike>bipartizanship<\/strike> cowardice, Obama will end up sending troops back to Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>We are unbelievably screwed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Republicans have taken over the Senate, as I predicted 12 days ago. Needless to say, I am kind of bummed about being right. I expect there to be pressure in the next Congress to impeach Obama, and in response, I expect Obama to try to gut Social Security and Medicare. I would also lay &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1078,1000],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disaster","category-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185489"}],"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=185489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}