{"id":10808,"date":"2010-02-24T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-02-24T06:55:04","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T06:55:04","slug":"february-23-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/24\/february-23-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"February 23 Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;David Lazarus has a story in the LA Times about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-lazarus23-2010feb23,0,6259181.column?page=1\">Health Net fighting against paying for procedures that keep an LA-area man alive<\/a>. It isn&#8217;t just one company or another. This is what the Tea Partiers are fighting to preserve. I wonder how they&#8217;ll feel about the system they love so much when they are in Bob Iritano&#8217;s position.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Poor John Yoo, now he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2010\/02\/22\/BAPH1C5G70.DTL&#038;feed=rss.bayarea\">has to freak out against pretty much anybody who criticizes him<\/a>. Yesterday, the Berkeley Law professor essentially called Dawn Johnsen a partisan hack, and that pretty much anybody who disagrees with him probably also a hack. It&#8217;s not easy trying to rationalize torture and professional misconduct, and look sane. But hey, 2 out of 3 isn&#8217;t bad.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Now that Meg Whitman captured the Howard Jarvis Non-Taxpayers endorsement, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calbuzz.com\/2010\/02\/does-the-commish-have-an-outside-game\/\">CalBuzz asks can Poizner still compete outside of the grassroots<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>* From the &#8220;reap what you sow&#8221; file, wingnut talk radio host Lee Rodgers was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/blogs\/nov05election\/detail?entry_id=57679\">fired by KSFO last week<\/a> because the parent company didn&#8217;t want to pay the last 4.5 months on his contract. And how is this long-time defender of corporate rapacity reacting? By getting his <em>union<\/em> involved. Once again conservatives show that progressive solutions are perfectly acceptable for themselves, just not for anyone else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;David Lazarus has a story in the LA Times about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-lazarus23-2010feb23,0,6259181.column?page=1\">Health Net fighting against paying for procedures that keep an LA-area man alive<\/a>. It isn&#8217;t just one company or another. This is what the Tea Partiers are fighting to preserve. I wonder how they&#8217;ll feel about the system they love so much when they are in Bob Iritano&#8217;s position.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Poor John Yoo, now he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2010\/02\/22\/BAPH1C5G70.DTL&#038;feed=rss.bayarea\">has to freak out against pretty much anybody who criticizes him<\/a>. Yesterday, the Berkeley Law professor essentially called Dawn Johnsen a partisan hack, and that pretty much anybody who disagrees with him probably also a hack. It&#8217;s not easy trying to rationalize torture and professional misconduct, and look sane. But hey, 2 out of 3 isn&#8217;t bad.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Now that Meg Whitman captured the Howard Jarvis Non-Taxpayers endorsement, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calbuzz.com\/2010\/02\/does-the-commish-have-an-outside-game\/\">CalBuzz asks can Poizner still compete outside of the grassroots<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>* From the &#8220;reap what you sow&#8221; file, wingnut talk radio host Lee Rodgers was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/blogs\/nov05election\/detail?entry_id=57679\">fired by KSFO last week<\/a> because the parent company didn&#8217;t want to pay the last 4.5 months on his contract. And how is this long-time defender of corporate rapacity reacting? By getting his <em>union<\/em> involved. Once again conservatives show that progressive solutions are perfectly acceptable for themselves, just not for anyone else.<\/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-10808","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-2Ok","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10808","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=10808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}