{"id":219,"date":"2006-05-09T05:00:55","date_gmt":"2006-05-09T09:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=219"},"modified":"2006-05-09T05:00:55","modified_gmt":"2006-05-09T09:00:55","slug":"tuesday-open-thread-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2006\/05\/09\/tuesday-open-thread-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, looks like the Republicans are afraid of losing at least one house of Congress, since they&#8217;re <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=washingtonstory&#038;sid=aUuyWDCDyRIk\">moving to extend tax breaks for the wealthy and Wall Street &#8211; and  throwing middle-class folks under the bus<\/a>  &#8211; while they&#8217;re still in charge.  Meanwhile, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reaches out to dubya, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/4752613.stm\">but Condi and the rest of the war mongers reject him out of hand<\/a>.  Not that they&#8217;re determined to have a war or anything.  Oh well, could be worse, I guess.  The CIA leadership could be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/SecurityTerrorism\/view.php?StoryID=20060508-033605-8277r\">up to its ass in hookers, gambling, and bribes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, looks like the Republicans are afraid of losing at least one house of Congress, since they&#8217;re moving to extend tax breaks for the wealthy and Wall Street &#8211; and throwing middle-class folks under the bus &#8211; while they&#8217;re still in charge. Meanwhile, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reaches out to dubya, but Condi and the rest of [&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-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","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=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}