{"id":11,"date":"2010-01-22T22:17:54","date_gmt":"2010-01-23T04:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/~david\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/?p=11"},"modified":"2010-01-22T22:17:54","modified_gmt":"2010-01-23T04:17:54","slug":"snookered-throngs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/2010\/01\/22\/snookered-throngs\/","title":{"rendered":"Snookered Throngs"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\n[&#8230;] what will happen when the throngs of Obama faithful realise that they gave their hearts not to a movement that shared their deepest values but to a devoutly corporatist political party, one that puts the profits of drug companies before the need for affordable health care, and Wall Street&#8217;s addiction to financial bubbles before the needs of millions of people whose homes and jobs could have been saved with a better bailout?<br \/>\n[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2010\/jan\/16\/naomi-klein-branding-obama-america\">Klein\/Branding Obama<\/a>]\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What will happen?  Now we know:  Massachusetts..  Their anger will keep them home.  It will drive them to the other side.  The party that took them for granted will be in deep doodoo.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You sound like a tea bagger.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In a way, you&#8217;re right,&#8221; I said.  &#8220;You&#8217;re hearing anger.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m so angry I could spit.  And I am far from the only one.  The formerly hopeful throngs have finally realized they&#8217;ve been snookered.  And the party hasn&#8217;t the faintest clue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[&#8230;] what will happen when the throngs of Obama faithful realise that they gave their hearts not to a movement that shared their deepest values but to a devoutly corporatist political party, one that puts the profits of drug companies before the need for affordable health care, and Wall Street&#8217;s addiction to financial bubbles before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}