{"id":226164,"date":"2010-01-25T12:00:09","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T17:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=74648"},"modified":"2010-01-25T12:00:09","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T17:00:09","slug":"lunchtime-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/226164","title":{"rendered":"Lunchtime Links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2010\/01\/25\/cnn-poll-majority-of-americans-say-much-of-stimulus-wasted\/\">American public thinks<\/a> most of the stimulus money&#8217;s been wasted; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/money\/economy\/2010-01-25-usa-today-economic-survey-obama-stimulus_N.htm\">leading economists disagree<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Beau Biden&#8217;s decision not to run <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/74653\/beau-biden-out-republicans-look-set-to-take-delaware-senate-seat\">hands his father&#8217;s old Senate seat<\/a> to the GOP.<\/p>\n<p>Krugman <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/25\/opinion\/25krugman.html?partner=rssnyt&amp;emc=rss\">backs Bernanke<\/a>, with reservations.<\/p>\n<p>High Republican disapproval makes Obama the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/125345\/Obama-Approval-Polarized-First-Year-President.aspx\">most polarizing president ever<\/a> &#8212; and by a wide margin.<\/p>\n<p>Energy industry lobbying <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/business-a-lobbying\/77737-climate-bill-drives-energy-companies-to-spend-more\">skyrocketed<\/a> in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>The propagandistic Russia Today <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/bensmith\/0110\/Russian_propaganda_arm_targets_Obama.html\">equates Obama with Ahmadinejad<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>DeMint gets <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tnr.com\/blog\/jonathan-chait\/the-demint-lexicon\">tripped up <\/a>by his own linguistic obstinacy.<\/p>\n<p>Happy birthday, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Burns_supper\">Robert Burns<\/a>! The United States will <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/uk\/2010\/jan\/24\/america-haggis-ban-lifted-burns\">lift its ban on haggis<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American public thinks most of the stimulus money&#8217;s been wasted; leading economists disagree. Beau Biden&#8217;s decision not to run hands his father&#8217;s old Senate seat to the GOP. Krugman backs Bernanke, with reservations. High Republican disapproval makes Obama the most polarizing president ever &#8212; and by a wide margin. Energy industry lobbying skyrocketed in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}