{"id":10823,"date":"2010-03-17T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-03-16T17:41:18","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T17:41:18","slug":"march-16-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/03\/17\/march-16-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"March 16 Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Lots of chatter about the Republican debate. &nbsp;The general consensus: it was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calbuzz.com\/2010\/03\/epic-clash-of-gop-titans-giants-beat-rangers-8-5\/\">a bit boring<\/a>. &nbsp;There <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/politics\/la-me-debate16-2010mar16,0,4271466.story\">weren&#8217;t any knockout blows<\/a> and the event was basically a series of segments from their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/bay-area-news\/ci_14681776?source=rss\">stump speeches<\/a>. Dan Walters calls it an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/2010\/03\/16\/2609486\/dan-walters-gop-debate-indirect.html#mi_rss=Dan%20Walters\">indirect win for Whitman<\/a>, as Poizner wasn&#8217;t able to really change the game.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;No <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbsun.com\/news\/ci_14679983?source=rss\">Tea Party primary challenge for Jerry Lewis<\/a>. Though, if the Tea Party stood for anything, this is where they would start. &nbsp;That dude is an earmark and federal dollars sponge. Oh, and he&#8217;s wildly corrupt.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Yo, Arnold. Sen. Padilla wants to know what&#8217;s the deal with sending <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-stimulus-calif16-2010mar16,0,6683657.story\">California stimulus funds to Oregon<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-uninsured16-2010mar16,0,1003749.story\">1 in 4 Californians are now uninsured<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Lots of chatter about the Republican debate. &nbsp;The general consensus: it was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calbuzz.com\/2010\/03\/epic-clash-of-gop-titans-giants-beat-rangers-8-5\/\">a bit boring<\/a>. &nbsp;There <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/politics\/la-me-debate16-2010mar16,0,4271466.story\">weren&#8217;t any knockout blows<\/a> and the event was basically a series of segments from their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/bay-area-news\/ci_14681776?source=rss\">stump speeches<\/a>. Dan Walters calls it an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/2010\/03\/16\/2609486\/dan-walters-gop-debate-indirect.html#mi_rss=Dan%20Walters\">indirect win for Whitman<\/a>, as Poizner wasn&#8217;t able to really change the game.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;No <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbsun.com\/news\/ci_14679983?source=rss\">Tea Party primary challenge for Jerry Lewis<\/a>. Though, if the Tea Party stood for anything, this is where they would start. &nbsp;That dude is an earmark and federal dollars sponge. Oh, and he&#8217;s wildly corrupt.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Yo, Arnold. Sen. Padilla wants to know what&#8217;s the deal with sending <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-stimulus-calif16-2010mar16,0,6683657.story\">California stimulus funds to Oregon<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-uninsured16-2010mar16,0,1003749.story\">1 in 4 Californians are now uninsured<\/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-10823","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-2Oz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10823","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=10823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}