{"id":188062,"date":"2010-12-20T21:16:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-21T02:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/12\/20\/howard-dean-call-barack-obama-and-tell-him\/"},"modified":"2010-12-20T21:16:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-21T02:16:00","slug":"howard-dean-call-barack-obama-and-tell-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/12\/20\/howard-dean-call-barack-obama-and-tell-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Howard Dean, Call Barack Obama and Tell Him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That you will run against him in the primaries unless he drops <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/1210\/46430.html\">his idea to cut social security<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>The tax deal negotiated by President Barack Obama and Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky is just the first part of a multistage drama that is likely to further divide and weaken Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>The second part, now being teed up by the White House and key Senate Democrats, is a scheme for the president to embrace much of the Bowles-Simpson plan \u2014 including cuts in Social Security. This is to be unveiled, according to well-placed sources, in the president\u2019s State of the Union address. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is bad policy, it&#8217;s bad politics.<\/p>\n<p>You could call it political Seppuku, but I think that is more accurately the deliberate and premeditated murder of the New Deal, and the marginalization of the Democratic Party for at least a generation.<\/p>\n<p>I can no longer attribute this to incompetence or cowardice.&nbsp; This is deliberate malice:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img88.imageshack.us\/img88\/6662\/story7635142.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img88.imageshack.us\/img88\/6662\/story7635142.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That you will run against him in the primaries unless he drops his idea to cut social security: The tax deal negotiated by President Barack Obama and Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky is just the first part of a multistage drama that is likely to further divide and weaken Democrats. The second part, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1142,1038,1051,1020,1086,1173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-budget","category-hypocrisy","category-legislation","category-social-safety-net","category-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188062"}],"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=188062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}