{"id":211,"date":"2003-10-08T04:30:12","date_gmt":"2003-10-08T04:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:08:22","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:08:22","slug":"its_done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=211","title":{"rendered":"It’s Done"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wow. The numbers are solid enough that all the wires are predicting the race – fifteen minutes after the polls closed<\/b>.<\/p>\n

Given Roger Simon’s<\/a> and my support how could he lose??<\/p>\n

Congratulations to Gov. Arnold and his team, and condolences to those who ran serious races and lost.<\/p>\n

Now, we need to watch what Gray is doing with the shredders he ordered…<\/p>\n

Seriously, it will be interesting to see if the core Jackie Goldberg wing<\/a> of the Democratic party can rev itself up for the threatened Repeat Recall; I’d bet a lot that it will fail miserably (the numbers look like 59%+ “YES” and Arnold brushing 50%) and that just might be the event that marches the lemmings off the cliff and lets the rest of us work to build an effective Democratic party that actually delivers to the working people of the state.<\/p>\n

Roger nails<\/a> it:<\/p>\n

What we are witnessing is the beginning\u2014the early movement–in the death of the two-party system as we know it. This is a revolt of the pragmatic center. And that is a good thing for the American people because those parties and the media that feed on them have indeed become a form of nomenklatura. They depend on each other. They are the mutual gate keepers of an old and sclerotic bureaucracy from which their jobs flow in a system of patronage as elaborate as the Czar’s. No wonder watching CNN tonight I felt as if I were watching a wake. They are threatened by what is going on\u2014as they should be.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wow. The numbers are solid enough that all the wires are predicting the race – fifteen minutes after the polls closed. Given Roger Simon’s and my support how could he lose?? Congratulations to Gov. Arnold and his team, and condolences to those who ran serious races and lost. Now, we need to watch what Gray […]<\/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":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}