{"id":2785,"date":"2009-01-06T20:27:11","date_gmt":"2009-01-07T01:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=2785"},"modified":"2009-01-06T20:27:11","modified_gmt":"2009-01-07T01:27:11","slug":"de-bushification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2009\/01\/06\/de-bushification\/","title":{"rendered":"de-Bushification&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<div align=\"center\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/openleft.com\/showDiary.do;jsessionid=79B2DD8781BEAA2F67240929F4097F1A?diaryId=10743\">Solving the Rootsgap<\/a><\/strong><br \/>by: Matt Stoller<br \/>Tue Jan 06, 2009<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><em>(I wanted more people to see this, and not just because I am running errands today and won&#8217;t be able to blog until later. Best wishes to Matt, who for three years has been the best writing partner I could ask for. If our efforts to create a progressive governing majority are to succeed, we need people organizing on the inside, too. Also, Open Left isn&#8217;t going anywhere, and over the next couple of days, we will have a series of announcements on our new content. Stay tuned <\/em><\/div>\n<p><em>  &#8211; promoted by Chris Bowers<\/em>)<\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">Well, I suppose I had to make the announcement at some point, so here goes. &nbsp;I won&#8217;t be blogging at <strong>OpenLeft<\/strong> for some time. &nbsp;<font color=\"#300030\"><strong>I&#8217;ve taken a job inside the House of Representatives (more on that when I&#8217;ve cleared what I can say) to see how the place works and to help create the space for more progressive policies<\/strong><\/font>&#8230;<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div align=\"justify\">Matt Stoller have been mainstays of the progressive blogging community. It&#8217;s exciting to read that he&#8217;s &quot;going inside.&quot; I&#8217;ve been wondering if that would happen. I read in Krugman&#8217;s blog today a reference to Digby, and I&#8217;ve felt like the House Committees have channeled Marcy Wheeler for some time. There&#8217;s a lot of talent in these blogs, and it would be a great idea for it to become part of the story of how we de-Bushify&#8230;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solving the Rootsgapby: Matt StollerTue Jan 06, 2009 (I wanted more people to see this, and not just because I am running errands today and won&#8217;t be able to blog until later. Best wishes to Matt, who for three years has been the best writing partner I could ask for. If our efforts to create [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}