{"id":942,"date":"2005-12-16T06:37:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-16T06:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:09:29","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:09:29","slug":"california_may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=942","title":{"rendered":"Morons With Bad Haircuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>California may be unhappy with the current Democratic power structure, but it&#8217;s in no danger of becoming a Republican state. That&#8217;s because the leadership of the California Republican Party <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flashreport.org\/blog.php?postID=2005121521014516\" target=\"browser\">are morons<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>The California Republican Party Board of Directors met today with Governor Schwarzenegger to have a frank and free flowing discussion about his recent appointment of Susan Kennedy as his new chief of staff.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They have their panties in a twist because the Gov. appointed a Democrat as Chief of Staff.<\/p>\n<p>Schwarzenegger won &#8211; as a Republican &#8211; by co-opting a number of Democratic issues, interest groups, and practitioners. People like me.I can&#8217;t imagine ever calling myself a Republican, but I can&#8217;t imagine a California Republican Party that can win statewide elections without the votes of a whole lot of people like me.<\/p>\n<p>But the party is run by clowns with bad haircuts more committed to some fantasy of ideological purity and grade-school sandbox power plays than actually winning elections and serving the people of California.<\/p>\n<p>The best service they could perform would be &#8211; simply &#8211; to become competitive with the Democrats so that the strident and foolish among the Democratic Party would get shoved far away from the levers of power.<\/p>\n<p>Somehow, I don&#8217;t see it happening very soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The California GOP is indignant at Gov. Ah-nold for appointing a Democrat to his staff. Armed Liberal calls them &#8220;morons.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}