{"id":1302,"date":"2006-08-08T18:06:05","date_gmt":"2006-08-08T18:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1302"},"modified":"2006-08-08T18:06:05","modified_gmt":"2006-08-08T18:06:05","slug":"day_of_reckonin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1302","title":{"rendered":"Day Of Reckoning"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ll be keeping an eye on the returns from the Connecticut Senate primary<\/a> tonight.  If Lieberman does lose, he will have been defeated by an unbeatable opponent: history.  Ned Lamont seems like a competent, bright guy, but the election isn’t about him.  This is the first election cycle in which discontent with the Iraq War–and by extension, the incumbent administration, has completely permeated the electorate.  It began in 2004, but we needed another two years of incompetency and horrific violence to persuade most voters that it’s the war, stupid.  But Lieberman has been slow to recognize that shift in the mood of most Americans.  <\/p>\n

I don’t think Lieberman is a bad guy.  I can even excuse his early support of the war; most of the country was still in a post-9\/11 state of daze and confusion that was expertly, albeit cynically, manipulated by this administration.  What I can’t forgive is his unwillingness to recognize that he was wrong; his failure to align his beliefs with the facts before him.  He displays a kind of ideological rigidity that is all too depressingly familiar after six years of living in Bush’s America.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ll be keeping an eye on the returns from the Connecticut Senate primary tonight.  If Lieberman does lose, he will have been defeated by an unbeatable opponent: history.  Ned Lamont seems like a competent, bright guy, but the election isn’t about him.  This is the first election cycle in which discontent with the Iraq War–and […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-l0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}