{"id":2047,"date":"2009-01-30T20:16:37","date_gmt":"2009-01-31T01:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=2047"},"modified":"2009-01-30T20:16:43","modified_gmt":"2009-01-31T01:16:43","slug":"grandmaster-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=2047","title":{"rendered":"Grandmaster Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"clear: both\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthout.org\/013009R\">Greg Palast seems to think that Obama played the Republicans just right<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"clear: both\">\n<p> Republicans are right. President Barack Obama treated them like dirt, didn&#8217;t give a damn what they thought about his stimulus package, loaded it with a bunch of programs that will last for years and will never leave the budget, is giving away money disguised as &#8220;tax refunds,&#8221; and is sneaking in huge changes in policy, from schools to health care, using the pretext of an economic emergency. <\/p>\n<p>  <strong><em>Way to go, Mr. O!<\/em><\/strong> Mr. Down-and-Dirty Chicago pol. Street-fightin&#8217; man. Covering over his break-your-face power play with a &#8220;we&#8217;re all post-partisan friends&#8221; BS. <\/p>\n<p> And it&#8217;s about time. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"clear: both\">It is about time, if that&#8217;s what&#8217;s going on. All this should become much clearer over the course of the next few weeks.<\/p>\n<p><br class=\"final-break\" style=\"clear: both\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greg Palast seems to think that Obama played the Republicans just right: Republicans are right. President Barack Obama treated them like dirt, didn&#8217;t give a damn what they thought about his stimulus package, loaded it with a bunch of programs that will last for years and will never leave the budget, is giving away money [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obama"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2048,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2047\/revisions\/2048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}