{"id":189307,"date":"2010-04-20T08:42:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T13:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/04\/20\/we-see-the-beginnings-of-competence\/"},"modified":"2010-04-20T08:42:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T13:42:00","slug":"we-see-the-beginnings-of-competence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/04\/20\/we-see-the-beginnings-of-competence\/","title":{"rendered":"We See the Beginnings of Competence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; width: 390px; float: right; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/img682.imageshack.us\/img682\/9674\/obamaad9195736.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img682.imageshack.us\/img682\/9674\/obamaad9195736.jpg\" bordercolor=\"white\" border=\"0\" width=\"390\" \/><\/a> <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">About bloody time!<\/span><\/div>\n<p>So, after the disastrous negotiations on healthcare with the Republicans, Barack Obama and His Stupid Minions<sup>\u2122<\/sup> begin to get a clue.<\/p>\n<p>On financial reform, Organizing for America, the Obama campaign political arm, is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601103&amp;sid=aunpKTYijL.Y\">running ads using Republican opposition to financial reform to Wall Street as a club to beat them with<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Certainly, this is better than their strategy on healthcare reform, which was to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/archives\/2010\/04\/seen_this_movie_before.php\">let Senator Olympia Snowe (R-ME) sandbag them<\/a> by engaging in extensive negotiations when she had not the slightest intention of voting for cloture.<\/p>\n<p>H\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/ftalphaville.ft.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/19\/205546\/this-cdo-is-a-democrat-or-republican-it-doesnt-really-matter\/\">FT Alphaville<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About bloody time! So, after the disastrous negotiations on healthcare with the Republicans, Barack Obama and His Stupid Minions\u2122 begin to get a clue. On financial reform, Organizing for America, the Obama campaign political arm, is running ads using Republican opposition to financial reform to Wall Street as a club to beat them with. Certainly, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,970,1004,1020,978,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-corruption","category-finance","category-legislation","category-politics","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189307"}],"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=189307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}