{"id":3548,"date":"2012-10-04T19:42:14","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T00:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3548"},"modified":"2012-10-04T19:42:14","modified_gmt":"2012-10-05T00:42:14","slug":"lying-liar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3548","title":{"rendered":"Lying Liar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Obama&#8217;s flat performance wasn&#8217;t the only thing about last night&#8217;s debate that left me frustrated. When pressed about his plan to repeal and replace Obamacare, Romney claimed that people with pre-existing conditions would still have access to coverage. Except they wouldn&#8217;t. A Romney adviser later clarified that <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2012\/10\/top-romney-adviser-states-will-have-to-cover-people-with-pre-existing-conditions-under-president-rom.php?ref=fpb\">states would need to enact their own versions of Obama&#8211;sorry, ROMNEYcare<\/a>&#8211;to guarantee coverage to people with pre-existing conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Let that sink in for a minute. Romney wants to scrap a federal law and replace it with fifty state laws that would essentially do the same thing. But he can&#8217;t say that during the debate because, you know, details.<\/p>\n<p>That Romney will say anything to become president is not exactly news. But I&#8217;m a little surprised that conservatives don&#8217;t seem to be bothered by this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama&#8217;s flat performance wasn&#8217;t the only thing about last night&#8217;s debate that left me frustrated. When pressed about his plan to repeal and replace Obamacare, Romney claimed that people with pre-existing conditions would still have access to coverage. Except they wouldn&#8217;t. A Romney adviser later clarified that states would need to enact their own versions <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3548' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-18-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-Ve","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3548","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=3548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3549,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3548\/revisions\/3549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}