{"id":4465,"date":"2010-11-04T15:21:30","date_gmt":"2010-11-04T19:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=4465"},"modified":"2010-11-04T17:12:08","modified_gmt":"2010-11-04T21:12:08","slug":"it-worked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2010\/11\/04\/it-worked\/","title":{"rendered":"it worked…"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"KarlThat article in the New York Times<\/font><\/strong> this morning [Democrats Outrun by a 2-Year G.O.P. Comeback Plan<\/a><\/strong>] was worse for me than the election itself. Obviously, with all my Klan illusions in that last post, I found it beyond infuriating. Essentially, what it said is that everything that’s happened in the last two years to the present has been part of a carefully orchestrated campaign to get the Republicans back into power – block voting "No," Boehner’s "Oh My God!", demonizing anyone who didn’t play ball [eg Arlen Specter], Joe Wilson’s "you lie!", Talk TV, Talk Radio, birthers, moslem-ers, socialist-ers, fascist-ers, communist-ers, etc. The whole point has been about winning back Congress [“Our mission statement was to retire Nancy Pelosi<\/span>. That was the whole mission statement.<\/font><\/strong>” – Pete Sessions (R-TX)]. Coming up now, the same deal with a slightly different focus [ “The single most important thing we want to achieve, is for President Obama to be a one-term president.<\/font><\/strong>” – Mitch McConnell (R-KY)]. There’s actually a name for this sort of thing: <\/div>\n
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    Sedition<\/u>:<\/font><\/strong> In law, sedition<\/strong> is overt conduct, such as speech and organization, that is deemed by the legal authority to tend toward insurrection against the established order. Sedition often includes subversion of a constitution and incitement of discontent [or resistance] to lawful authority.<\/div>\n<\/ul>\n
    Of all the times to totally focus on political goals and oppose every attempt to make some kind of progress for the people they serve, the Great Recession was sure a bad choice unless the only goal of government is political power. They would say that their oppositionalism was because Obama’s policies were bad – but no one in their right mind would believe them. That’s simply plausible deniability.<\/div>\n

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    Sadly, it worked [again]…<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    That article in the New York Times this morning [Democrats Outrun by a 2-Year G.O.P. Comeback Plan] was worse for me than the election itself. Obviously, with all my Klan illusions in that last post, I found it beyond infuriating. Essentially, what it said is that everything that’s happened in the last two years to […]<\/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-4465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4465","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=4465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}