{"id":382905,"date":"2010-03-03T04:30:26","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T09:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=70285"},"modified":"2010-03-03T04:30:26","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T09:30:26","slug":"party-of-noh-theatre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/382905","title":{"rendered":"Party of Noh Theatre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/2010\/03\/03\/party-of-noh-theatre\/thats-entertainment-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-70286\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static1.firedoglake.com\/1\/files\/2010\/03\/thats-entertainment-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"that&#039;s entertainment\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-70286\" \/><\/a>The President makes a soggy stop upon the &#8220;<em>Broder Ride<\/em>&#8221; (&#8216;ride the Mild Broder!&#8217;*) at the Village Amusement Park <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/archives\/2010\/03\/got_your_bipartisanship_right_here.php?ref=fpblg\">engaged<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class='wbq'>\n<p>President Obama has sent a letter to congressional leaders outlining four GOP ideas from last week&#8217;s health care summit that he&#8217;s amenable to including in the reform bill.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The ideas were all rather minor and some were very petty (they were, after all Republican ideas), but there they were, a sop and grist for the mill and something for the mythical bipartisan pony to neigh about.<\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"http:\/\/swampland.blogs.time.com\/2010\/03\/02\/despite-obama-overture-gop-stays-on-message\/\">how&#8217;d it go?<\/a>  &#8212; like you needed to ask:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class='wbq'>\n<p>&#8230;no Republicans are likely to vote for the Democratic reforms, regardless of which GOP ideas are added to the legislation. The unsurprising GOP reaction to Obama&#8217;s letter can be summed up in three words: Scrap the bills.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Ah, the thee-ate-er &#8212; a performance piece.  About as entertaining as Sarah Palin <a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/5484366\/sarah-palin-commiserates-with-leno-about-being-ridiculed-on-the-internet\">doing stand up<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>*I&#8217;m sorry, I know many of you were too grossed out to continue reading beyond this point.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/share-this\/share-icon-16x16.gif\" alt=\"Share This icon\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=70285&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"Email, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_70285\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"noindex nofollow\">&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The President makes a soggy stop upon the &#8220;Broder Ride&#8221; (&#8216;ride the Mild Broder!&#8217;*) at the Village Amusement Park engaged: President Obama has sent a letter to congressional leaders outlining four GOP ideas from last week&#8217;s health care summit that he&#8217;s amenable to including in the reform bill. The ideas were all rather minor and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-382905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382905","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=382905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}