{"id":15665,"date":"2010-11-29T06:51:07","date_gmt":"2010-11-29T12:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=15665"},"modified":"2010-11-29T06:51:07","modified_gmt":"2010-11-29T12:51:07","slug":"death-by-a-thousand-twerps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=15665","title":{"rendered":"Death By A Thousand Twerps"},"content":{"rendered":"

If I were the President of Harvard University, I might wanna have a word with Matt Yglesias.<\/p>\n

Matt – a prominent leftyblogger who’s gone on to write for a bunch of liberal rags – has a BA from Harvard. \u00a0Like a lot of leftybloggers, he profited from the leftyblog audience’s hive mentality and got promoted far beyond even his Peter Principle value, to say nothing of his actual perception.<\/p>\n

And it’s gotta be undercutting the value of that expensive Harvard sheepskin. \u00a0Especially when he’s writing bilge like this<\/a>, about planning ahead for the new GOP majority in Congress:<\/p>\n

But the specific thing I would worry about isn\u2019t gutting of health care legislation or endless investigations. It\u2019s the economy. Anne Kornblut reports that the White House understands the basic political dynamic: \u201cEven more important, senior administration officials said, Obama will need to oversee tangible improvements in the economy.\u201d<\/p>\n

So I know that tangible improvements in the economy are key to Obama\u2019s re-election chances. And Douglas Hibbs knows that it\u2019s key. And senior administration officials know that its key. So is it so unreasonable to think that Mitch McConnell and John Boehner may also know that it\u2019s key? That rank and file Republicans know that it\u2019s key? McConnell has clarified that his key goal in the Senate is to cause Barack Obama to lose in 2012 which if McConnell understands the situation correctly means doing everything in his power to reduce economic growth. Boehner has distanced himself from this theory, but many members of his caucus may agree with McConnell.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And Yglesias’ conclusion (emphasis added)?<\/p>\n

Which is just to say that specifically the White House needs to be prepared not just for rough political tactics from the opposition (what else is new?) but for a true worst case scenario of deliberate economic sabotage<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Truly, truly dreadful.<\/p>\n

The left; not only do they believe their ends justify their means, they believe everyone else believes it too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If I were the President of Harvard University, I might wanna have a word with Matt Yglesias. Matt – a prominent leftyblogger who’s gone on to write for a bunch of liberal rags – has a BA from Harvard. \u00a0Like a lot of leftybloggers, he profited from the leftyblog audience’s hive mentality and got promoted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,68,24,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-12","category-capitalism-v-socialism","category-culture-war","category-lefty-alt-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15665"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15722,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15665\/revisions\/15722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}