{"id":189978,"date":"2010-01-19T21:35:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T02:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/01\/19\/41\/"},"modified":"2010-01-19T21:35:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T02:35:00","slug":"41","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/01\/19\/41\/","title":{"rendered":"41"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/politics\/2010\/senate_race\/\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Boston Globe<\/span> calls it for Scott Brown<\/a>, so he will be the 41<sup>st<\/sup> Republican in the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>I was right with my prediction, and that sucks.  Normally I&#8217;m wrong.<\/p>\n<p>For the optimists, refer to my earlier take on <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/barack-obama-is-scared.html\">potential positives of Coakley losing<\/a>, (the bullet points toward the end of the post) but for me, this just sucks.<\/p>\n<p>Two words: Budget Reconciliation.<\/p>\n<p>Jon Stewart captures the essence of what is wrong with both candidate Coakley (first 5\u00bd minutes), and the Democratic Party (after).<\/p>\n<p><embed style=\"display: block;\" src=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/mgid:cms:item:comedycentral.com:262017\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"window\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" flashvars=\"autoPlay=false\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allownetworking=\"all\" bgcolor=\"#000000\" height=\"301\" width=\"360\"><\/embed><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Globe calls it for Scott Brown, so he will be the 41st Republican in the Senate. I was right with my prediction, and that sucks. Normally I&#8217;m wrong. For the optimists, refer to my earlier take on potential positives of Coakley losing, (the bullet points toward the end of the post) but for &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1000,1046,978,1027],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-elections","category-healthcare","category-politics","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189978"}],"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=189978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}