{"id":167,"date":"2006-12-05T08:32:24","date_gmt":"2006-12-05T14:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/2006\/12\/04\/buh-bye\/"},"modified":"2006-12-05T05:48:09","modified_gmt":"2006-12-05T11:48:09","slug":"buh-bye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=167","title":{"rendered":"Buh Bye"},"content":{"rendered":"

On reading David Drucker’s op-ed in the Strib<\/a> (via the LATimes), it’s tempting to simply mutter “good riddance” as Drucker – whose column is so sodden with lefty caricature that it reads like parody – and his wife decide to move to Canada:<\/p>\n

I’m sure a lot of other dyed-in-the-organic-wool liberals muttered something similar that dark morning in 2004, but unlike most of them, we meant it. Plan A: John Kerry wins, we build that dream ski house in Vermont. Plan B: Move to Vancouver.<\/p>\n

So, Plan B it was. We’d had enough of Bush, the direction the United States was going, and this was the last straw. Never mind that we lived in Cambridge, Mass., arguably the most liberal city in the bluest of the blue states. We were packing our bulk granola into our diesel Beetle and heading out.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But then, after reading the cloyingly vacuous Drucker’s analysis of Canadian and US politics, you reconsider…<\/p>\n

…and mutter “good riddance, yuppie a****le”.\u00a0 I don’t care what your politics are – but we’re a better country to be at least be rid of one pair of worthless quitters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On reading David Drucker’s op-ed in the Strib (via the LATimes), it’s tempting to simply mutter “good riddance” as Drucker – whose column is so sodden with lefty caricature that it reads like parody – and his wife decide to move to Canada: I’m sure a lot of other dyed-in-the-organic-wool liberals muttered something similar that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","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=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}