{"id":1306,"date":"2009-02-26T06:49:58","date_gmt":"2009-02-26T11:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=1306"},"modified":"2009-02-26T06:49:58","modified_gmt":"2009-02-26T11:49:58","slug":"portuguese-waterdog-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2009\/02\/26\/portuguese-waterdog-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"Portuguese Waterdog Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not much going on this morning.  Looks like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/news\/2009\/02\/banks_lobby_up_to_derail_obamas_mortgage_relief_pl.php\">banks are puking out money to pay off our &#8220;representatives&#8221; in order to kill Obama&#8217;s mortgage relief program<\/a>.  <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB123561083268377547.html\">Ditto for the health care, insurance, mining, and agribusiness industries<\/a>, in hopes of killing everything that Obama proposed doing in his speech the other night.  The President&#8217;s proposals are highly favorable with the public, so I predict lobbyist money will win the day, and kill (or at least maim) them all.  &#8216;Cuz that&#8217;s how sacred Capitalism works, and we don&#8217;t wanna be goddamn Socialists, do we?  Didn&#8217;t think so.<\/p>\n<p>Looks like the Obamas (Michelle, anyway) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/news\/nationworld\/ny-usdog266049716feb26,0,6219083.story\">have settled on a Portuguese Waterdog as their new doggie, assuming they can find one from a rescue<\/a>. What, they couldn&#8217;t get a regular &#8216;merican dog?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not much going on this morning. Looks like banks are puking out money to pay off our &#8220;representatives&#8221; in order to kill Obama&#8217;s mortgage relief program. Ditto for the health care, insurance, mining, and agribusiness industries, in hopes of killing everything that Obama proposed doing in his speech the other night. The President&#8217;s proposals are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}