{"id":10783,"date":"2010-01-20T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-01-20T03:42:52","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T03:42:52","slug":"january-19-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/01\/20\/january-19-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"January 19 Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like either we go the way of reconciliation, or health care reform is dead with <a href=\"http:\/\/dailykos.com\/storyonly\/2010\/1\/19\/827032\/-MA-Sen:-AP-Calls-It-for-Brown\">Scott Brown taking Ted Kennedy&#8217;s seat<\/a>. This is what happens when you take something for granted. Coakley took a month long vacation, didn&#8217;t campaign, and looked like she didn&#8217;t even care. It would be nice to say that perhaps we would learn something, but how much did we really learn from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kathleen_Brown\">Kathleen Brown<\/a>? Anyway, onwards we go toward the land of Corporatism.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some links:<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;The Tea Parties = <a href=\"http:\/\/totalbuzz.freedomblogging.com\/2010\/01\/18\/oc-gop-chief-calls-for-a-revolution\/28367\/\">The OC GOP<\/a> = The Tea Parties = Crrrraaaaazzzzyyyy<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Former Governor George Deukmejian is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/2010\/jan\/18\/deukmejian-backs-poizner-in-calif-governors-race\/\">backing Steve Poizner<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Jean Ross has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calbuzz.com\/2010\/01\/feds-are-part-of-the-solution-not-the-problem\/\">post up on CalBuzz about budget help from the feds<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Peter Schrag calls the Governor&#8217;s school budget a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.californiaprogressreport.com\/site\/?q=node\/7350\">race to mediocrity<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like either we go the way of reconciliation, or health care reform is dead with <a href=\"http:\/\/dailykos.com\/storyonly\/2010\/1\/19\/827032\/-MA-Sen:-AP-Calls-It-for-Brown\">Scott Brown taking Ted Kennedy&#8217;s seat<\/a>. This is what happens when you take something for granted. Coakley took a month long vacation, didn&#8217;t campaign, and looked like she didn&#8217;t even care. It would be nice to say that perhaps we would learn something, but how much did we really learn from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kathleen_Brown\">Kathleen Brown<\/a>? Anyway, onwards we go toward the land of Corporatism.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some links:<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;The Tea Parties = <a href=\"http:\/\/totalbuzz.freedomblogging.com\/2010\/01\/18\/oc-gop-chief-calls-for-a-revolution\/28367\/\">The OC GOP<\/a> = The Tea Parties = Crrrraaaaazzzzyyyy<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Former Governor George Deukmejian is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/2010\/jan\/18\/deukmejian-backs-poizner-in-calif-governors-race\/\">backing Steve Poizner<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Jean Ross has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calbuzz.com\/2010\/01\/feds-are-part-of-the-solution-not-the-problem\/\">post up on CalBuzz about budget help from the feds<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Peter Schrag calls the Governor&#8217;s school budget a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.californiaprogressreport.com\/site\/?q=node\/7350\">race to mediocrity<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2450,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[1153],"class_list":["post-10783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-1153"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2NV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2450"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}