{"id":3348,"date":"2010-11-03T09:24:17","date_gmt":"2010-11-03T14:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3348"},"modified":"2010-11-03T09:24:17","modified_gmt":"2010-11-03T14:24:17","slug":"my-quick-take-on-last-nights-election-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3348","title":{"rendered":"My quick take on last night&#8217;s election results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t been able to kill the political junkie deep inside yet so I did listen with half an ear to a lot of last night&#8217;s election returns. I went to bed long before the entire results nation-wide were called. Oberstar was thought to be leading when I retired. This morning I found three emails from my personal gadfly, Vic.<\/p>\n<p>Among them was <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704462704575590871101994524.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop\">this editorial<\/a> by the Wall Street Journal which crows about President Obama being taught a lesson about overreach.<\/p>\n<p>I think my short reply to Vic gives a pretty fair representation about the state of my politics today.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Vic,<\/p>\n<p>It was an interesting election. I voted for Horner. Apparently enough folks like me did so to deprive Emmer victory. I didn&#8217;t vote for Cravaack or Oberstar but I&#8217;m not unhappy with the result. It made me chuckle.<\/p>\n<p>Politics requires compromise but the Tea Party will punish anyone who dares to attempt this. The WSJ may enjoy beating up the &#8220;Pelosi Democrats&#8221; for uleashing pent up liberal big spending but what will it say about Tea Party Republicans attempting to undo FDR? With Rupert Murdoch running the show I expect the WSJ to continue being a pale shadow of Murdoch&#8217;s Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>Harry  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t been able to kill the political junkie deep inside yet so I did listen with half an ear to a lot of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3348"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}