{"id":413,"date":"2006-11-09T05:00:29","date_gmt":"2006-11-09T10:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=413"},"modified":"2006-11-08T17:44:29","modified_gmt":"2006-11-08T22:44:29","slug":"thursday-open-thread-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2006\/11\/09\/thursday-open-thread-40\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been an interesting couple of days, hasn&#8217;t it?  I keep reading stories from the pundit class, trying to give their spin on why &#8220;Democrats did so well.&#8221;  All the ones I&#8217;ve read missed the point entirely.  Democrats won big because the Republicans in general &#8211; and the Bush Administration specifically &#8211; are the most corrupt, disgusting, and inept bunch of   demons to be set loose on our government<em><strong> at least<\/strong><\/em> in my lifetime, and most probably the history of the United States.  And that&#8217;s saying a lot.<\/p>\n<p>The question they really ought to be asking is, &#8220;why the fuck did it take so long for Americans to figure it out?&#8221;  That&#8217;s what the rest of the world must be thinking.  So, anyway, I vote we take a couple of days to enjoy this (it&#8217;s been a long time since we&#8217;ve had an election to be happy about) before we start in with &#8220;the Democrats suck&#8221; stuff.  In fact, maybe we can give &#8217;em until they actually take over.  We all have a lot of work to come January, so we ought to rest up a bit.  Speaking of which, I think I&#8217;ll go back to bed, and hopefully wake up again some time tomorrow afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and if you&#8217;re out there in LA, go see Marc at the Ex-Druggie Show at the UCB Theater.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been an interesting couple of days, hasn&#8217;t it? I keep reading stories from the pundit class, trying to give their spin on why &#8220;Democrats did so well.&#8221; All the ones I&#8217;ve read missed the point entirely. Democrats won big because the Republicans in general &#8211; and the Bush Administration specifically &#8211; are the most [&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-413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413","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=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}