{"id":1656,"date":"2009-12-12T09:57:43","date_gmt":"2009-12-12T16:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=1656"},"modified":"2009-12-12T09:57:43","modified_gmt":"2009-12-12T16:57:43","slug":"oh-right-theres-checks-and-balances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2009\/12\/12\/oh-right-theres-checks-and-balances\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh, right, there&#8217;s checks and balances."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Yglesias <a href=\"http:\/\/yglesias.thinkprogress.org\/archives\/2009\/12\/blame-obama-first.php?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+matthewyglesias+(Matthew+Yglesias)&#038;utm_content=Google+Reader\">responds to<\/a> (or dispenses with) Matt Taibbi&#8217;s latest essay on President Obama:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Matt Taibbi has the latest in the endless series of articles and blog posts by everyone under the sun claiming everything in the world would be great if only Barack Obama were more left-wing. Taibbi is a much better writer than most people, so his contribution to this literature has a great deal more panache. That said, not only does his piece have the various factual problems noted by Tim Fernholz but it suffers from the same basic conceptual flaw as the vast majority of this literature\u2014it ignores congress.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Yglesias responds to (or dispenses with) Matt Taibbi&#8217;s latest essay on President Obama: Matt Taibbi has the latest in the endless series of articles and blog posts by everyone under the sun claiming everything in the world would be great if only Barack Obama were more left-wing. Taibbi is a much better writer than&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}