{"id":1335,"date":"2009-03-24T06:23:26","date_gmt":"2009-03-24T10:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=1335"},"modified":"2009-03-24T06:56:36","modified_gmt":"2009-03-24T10:56:36","slug":"fat-cat-tuesday-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2009\/03\/24\/fat-cat-tuesday-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"Fat Cat Tuesday Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Poor Governor Blinky.  He just can&#8217;t get any love (maybe he should pay for it, like our last Gov).  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/2009\/03\/23\/2009-03-23_new_siena_poll_finds_gov_david_patersons.html\">A new poll<\/a> shows his approval rating is heading towards Cheney territory, at 19%.  The scary part is the poll shows he&#8217;d lose to Guidi Ruliani if he runs. Gov Guidi.  Oy.  <\/p>\n<p>Speaking of Dick Cheney, I guess I&#8217;m not the only one who wishes he&#8217;d STFU.  <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/leading-the-news\/go-back-into-hiding-gop-begs-dick-cheney--please-2009-03-23.html\">Republicans want him to go back to his cave, too<\/a>.  Who needs Cheney <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2009\/03\/23\/tammy-bruce-calls-the-oba_n_178109.html\">when you have Tammy Bruce<\/a>, anyway?<\/p>\n<p>Yay!  Wall Street executives get to keep their bonuses and our tax money <a href=\"http:\/\/openleft.com\/showDiary.do?diaryId=12429\">with no strings attached &#8211; or else<\/a>.  Coincidentally, the stock market went way up.  This is good news for us because, um, because, well, <strong><em>it just is<\/em><\/strong>, damnit! Now, if we can just find a way to screw over the autoworkers, we&#8217;ll be all set.  I think it&#8217;s time for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.syracuse.com\/today\/index.ssf\/2009\/03\/judge_orders_fda_to_let_17year.html\">Plan B<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Well, hope springs eternal, and speaking of both, Spring Football practice began yesterday at Syracuse, amidst high hopes that our new coach &#8211; Doug Marrone &#8211; can turn the program around. It would be nice not to have to turn our thoughts to basketball season by the end of September for a change.  I don&#8217;t know who&#8217;s got a tougher job, Marrone or Obama.  <\/p>\n<p>Marrone makes more, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poor Governor Blinky. He just can&#8217;t get any love (maybe he should pay for it, like our last Gov). A new poll shows his approval rating is heading towards Cheney territory, at 19%. The scary part is the poll shows he&#8217;d lose to Guidi Ruliani if he runs. Gov Guidi. Oy. Speaking of Dick Cheney, [&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-1335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335","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=1335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}