{"id":382129,"date":"2010-03-02T23:06:37","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T04:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.72880"},"modified":"2010-03-02T23:11:23","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T04:11:23","slug":"nancy-dinardo-rates-the-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/382129","title":{"rendered":"Nancy DiNardo rates the debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And not surprisingly, the state Democratic party chairwoman&nbsp;gives the GOP field a lousy grade.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What we heard tonight was the same, tired Republican line that we&#8217;ve been hearing for years,&#8221; she said in a statement emailed to reporters after tonight&#8217;s Republican Senate debate. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[L]ess regulation of big business, let the free market police itself&#8230;isn&#8217;t that the same failed Republican policy that got our country into this economic mess and pushed us to the brink of complete economic ruin in the first place?&nbsp; And on health care, they all seemed fairly content to stay with the status quo &#8212; not offering up any solutions to address the problem of 30 million uninsured Americans and spiraling health care costs &#8212; unless you count Ms. McMahon&#8217;s suggestion that our health care problems can be solved by going back to the days of drive-through deliveries and mastectomies and having people bargain to lower their health care costs.&nbsp; Tonight proved once again that the Republicans are nothing more than the Party of No &#8212; no ideas, no vision, no progress.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And not surprisingly, the state Democratic party chairwoman&nbsp;gives the GOP field a lousy grade. &#8220;What we heard tonight was the same, tired Republican line that we&#8217;ve been hearing for years,&#8221; she said in a statement emailed to reporters after tonight&#8217;s Republican Senate debate. &#8220;[L]ess regulation of big business, let the free market police itself&#8230;isn&#8217;t that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4000,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-382129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382129","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\/4000"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}