{"id":1091,"date":"2009-01-12T22:51:33","date_gmt":"2009-01-13T04:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1091"},"modified":"2009-01-12T22:51:33","modified_gmt":"2009-01-13T04:51:33","slug":"monday-night-linkorama-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1091","title":{"rendered":"Monday Night Linkorama"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<li>George Bush <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=99215640\">dissuaded Israel<\/a> from bombing Iran.  For once, I&#8217;m impressed with the President.  As such, I don&#8217;t believe the story.  NPR&#8217;s been full of it before.<\/li>\n<li>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/01\/11\/AR2009011102301.html?hpid=topnews\">must-read<\/a> on the President&#8217;s economic legacy.  I&#8217;ve run out of words for how much he has disappointed me.  If you&#8217;d told me in 2000 that a Republican President and Congress would create a lost economic decade, I wouldn&#8217;t have believed you.<\/li>\n<li>Trust Obama to want to eliminate the one part of Medicare that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cato-at-liberty.org\/2009\/01\/12\/obama-proposes-eliminating-medicare-advantage-ousting-9-million-seniors-from-their-health-plans\/\">actually works<\/a>.  That Stephanopolous interview was a disaster &#8212; an uncharacteristic burst of stupidity form the President Elect.<\/li>\n<li>Yglesis isn&#8217;t good at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reason.com\/blog\/show\/131015.html\">analogies<\/a> is he?<\/li>\n<li>Our nation&#8217;s pension funds are about to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reason.com\/news\/show\/130843.html\">collapse<\/a>.  I remind you that some in the Democratic Party want us to cash out our 401k&#8217;s for these dubious vehicles.  This is why, at every job I&#8217;ve had, I&#8217;ve taken the defined contribution rather than defined benefit.<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Bush dissuaded Israel from bombing Iran. For once, I&#8217;m impressed with the President. As such, I don&#8217;t believe the story. NPR&#8217;s been full of it before. A must-read on the President&#8217;s economic legacy. I&#8217;ve run out of words for how much he has disappointed me. If you&#8217;d told me in 2000 that a Republican &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1091\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday Night Linkorama<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,5,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healthcare","category-politics","category-terror"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-hB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}