{"id":1883,"date":"2010-01-28T16:44:15","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T16:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=1883"},"modified":"2010-01-28T16:44:15","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T16:44:15","slug":"scalzi_on_the_sotu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2010\/01\/28\/scalzi_on_the_sotu\/","title":{"rendered":"Scalzi on the SOTU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t find myself nodding in agreement with <a href=\"http:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/\">John Scalzi<\/a> nearly as often as I used to. A definite air of belligerent self-satisfaction seems to have crept into his blogging, and I&#8217;ve gotten mightily tired of him hacking on stuff I happen to like &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/2010\/01\/15\/things-i-dont-miss\/\">this entry<\/a>, in particular, managed to piss me off at least three times before I reached the end; people who know me well can probably guess which parts pressed my buttons &#8212; but I&#8217;ve got to hand it to him, he really knocked the ball out of the park with <a href=\"http:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/2010\/01\/28\/state-of-the-union-2010\/\">this<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nObama\u2019s real problem is that in Congress, his allies are incompetent cowards and his adversaries are smug dicks. I find it genuinely appalling a Democratic president has to prod his party members in the Senate, with a 59-seat majority, to stop acting like spooked children. The lot of them need to have a stick jammed up their ass, because it\u2019s clear they don\u2019t have much in the way of a spine. As for the Republicans, a recent reader was distressed when I said they were \u201chopped-up ignorant nihilists,\u201d but you know what, when your Senate operating strategy is \u201cfilibuster everything and let Fox News do the rest,\u201d and the party as a whole gives it a thumbs up, guess what, you\u2019re goddamned nihilists. There\u2019s no actual political strategy in GOP anymore other than taking joy in defeating the Democrats.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Which is more or less exactly what I&#8217;ve been saying lately, but expressed so much more <i>colorfully<\/i>&#8230; Kudos, John, kudos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t find myself nodding in agreement with John Scalzi nearly as often as I used to. A definite air of belligerent self-satisfaction seems to have crept into his blogging, and I&#8217;ve gotten mightily tired of him hacking on stuff I happen to like &#8212; this entry, in particular, managed to piss me off at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}