{"id":338842,"date":"2010-02-19T07:31:13","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T12:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f86\/snowmaggedon-george-w-bush-kennedy-goodbye-obamacare-39661\/"},"modified":"2010-02-19T07:31:13","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T12:31:13","slug":"snowmaggedon-george-w-bush-a-kennedy-goodbye-andobamacare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/338842","title":{"rendered":"Snowmaggedon, George W. Bush, a Kennedy Goodbye and*Obamacare"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>02.18.10 07:02 PM<\/p>\n<p><b>*&amp;ldquo;Snowmaggedon&amp;rdquo;  didn&amp;rsquo;t last long enough.<\/b> With my apologies to many friends in the Washington, D.C.,  area who work at productive jobs in the private sector, let me say, I wish your  city had been paralyzed longer. The only time I feel safe from government is  when it&amp;rsquo;s shut down.<\/p>\n<p><b>*&amp;ldquo;Miss Me Yet?&amp;rdquo; <\/b>That&amp;rsquo;s the  provocative question that&amp;rsquo;s appearing on many billboards in the Midwest&amp;mdash;above a larger-than-life-sized picture of a  smiling and waving George W. Bush. While I was no fan of Mr. Bush&amp;rsquo;s budget-busting  social policies&amp;mdash;or for that matter, his propensity to risk American lives in  every two-bit banana republic around the world&amp;mdash;I do have to admit, yes, our country  was safer and our dollar was stronger when he was in office.<\/p>\n<p><b>*Another Kennedy  bids adieu.<\/b> Rep. Patrick Kennedy, son of the late Senator Ted Kennedy, has announced that  he will not seek reelection in Massachusetts  this fall. Unless he changes his mind (or another Kennedy steps forward), this  will be the first time in more than half a century that no Kennedy is serving  in Congress. While his dad combined a powerful legislative record with a  dissolute personal life, the son has only managed to copy his father on the  second.<\/p>\n<p><b>*Big-buck investors  bet Obamacare is dead. <\/b>Maybe the liberals in Washington still hope to pass some version  of a socialized healthcare bill, but the big money is betting it won&amp;rsquo;t happen. How  do I know? HCA Inc., the largest hospital operator in the nation, just agreed  to pay out a special dividend to its owners of <b>$1.75 billion.<\/b> No way would these canny investors do that if they  didn&amp;rsquo;t think their business is going to be very, <u>very<\/u> profitable. They  don&amp;rsquo;t plan to live on what Medicare pays.<\/p>\n<p>&amp;mdash;<i>Chip Wood<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.personalliberty.com\/chip-shots\/snowmaggedon-george-w-bush-a-kennedy-goodbye-and-obamacare\/\" >http:\/\/www.personalliberty.com\/chip-&#8230;and-obamacare\/<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>02.18.10 07:02 PM *&amp;ldquo;Snowmaggedon&amp;rdquo; didn&amp;rsquo;t last long enough. With my apologies to many friends in the Washington, D.C., area who work at productive jobs in the private sector, let me say, I wish your city had been paralyzed longer. The only time I feel safe from government is when it&amp;rsquo;s shut down. *&amp;ldquo;Miss Me Yet?&amp;rdquo; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4498,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}