{"id":2548,"date":"2010-01-20T18:01:13","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T18:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2548"},"modified":"2010-01-20T18:01:13","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T18:01:13","slug":"panic_in_the_st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2548","title":{"rendered":"Panic In The Streets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to post something about the prospects for still passing a comprehensive health care bill, but I fear that any such analysis would quickly turn into an epithet-laced invective against Democratic cowardice. I&#8217;d like to think that Democrats will have their little freak-out and then, you know, actually do what we elected them to do. Never mind that Obama already is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/21\/health\/policy\/21health.html?hp\">signaling his willingness to accept a thin gruel of a bill <\/a>that would do little more than give people the right to bankrupt themselves buying insurance. But that&#8217;s just Obama doing his elite Jedi mindfuck with the opposition, right?<br \/>\nRight?<br \/>\nI&#8217;m still a Democrat and I believe in Democratic principles. I just wish I could say the same of folks like <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2010\/01\/frank-i-hope-some-gop-senators-will-support-health-care-reform----because-without-them-bill-may-be-t.php\">Barney Frank<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to post something about the prospects for still passing a comprehensive health care bill, but I fear that any such analysis would quickly turn into an epithet-laced invective against Democratic cowardice. I&#8217;d like to think that Democrats will have their little freak-out and then, you know, actually do what we elected them <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2548' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-F6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}