{"id":188272,"date":"2010-10-28T21:38:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-29T02:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/10\/28\/what-will-obama-do-if-the-dems-lose-congress\/"},"modified":"2010-10-28T21:38:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-29T02:38:00","slug":"what-will-obama-do-if-the-dems-lose-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/10\/28\/what-will-obama-do-if-the-dems-lose-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"What Will Obama Do if the Dems Lose Congress?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Quiggin Crooked Timber says that Obama will start engaging in <a href=\"http:\/\/crookedtimber.org\/2010\/10\/26\/zero-dimensional-chess\/\">zero-dimensional-chess<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Translation: Mr Obama and his aides plan a series of pre-emptive capitulations, after which the Republicans will demand the repeal of the healthcare act (or maybe abolition of Social Security). When\/if that is refused, the Repugs will shut down the government, and this time they will hold their nerve until Obama folds. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That Republicans won&#8217;t work with him, even if he capitulates, is a certainty, if Republicans were to cooperate with him on sending the Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow to Gitmo, they would still be primaried by the teabaggers.<\/p>\n<p>The supposition that he will lead with capitulation is almost certain, since this has been his modus operandi over the past 20 months.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of the outcome, Obama sill see it as an opportunity to do some serious hippie punching.<\/p>\n<p>The zero-dimensional chess bon mot deserves a Pulitzer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Quiggin Crooked Timber says that Obama will start engaging in zero-dimensional-chess: Translation: Mr Obama and his aides plan a series of pre-emptive capitulations, after which the Republicans will demand the repeal of the healthcare act (or maybe abolition of Social Security). When\/if that is refused, the Repugs will shut down the government, and this &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1142,998,1000],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-congress","category-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188272"}],"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=188272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}