{"id":396329,"date":"2010-03-06T07:31:14","date_gmt":"2010-03-06T12:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehollywoodliberal.com\/2010\/03\/06\/one-giant-government-leap-backwards\/"},"modified":"2010-03-06T07:31:14","modified_gmt":"2010-03-06T12:31:14","slug":"one-giant-government-leap-backwards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/396329","title":{"rendered":"One Giant Government Leap Backwards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/2010\/03\/05\/one_giant_government_leap_backwards_230452.html\" >One Giant Government Leap Backwards \t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/> Larry Kudlow, RealClearMarkets<br \/>Rather than a post-partisan olive branch to congressional Republicans and the American public, President Obama&apos;s latest health-care speech was a declaration of war. He&apos;s more than willing to use a 51-vote reconciliation majority to jam through a roughly $2 trillion health-care plan that amounts to a government takeover of nearly one-fifth of the economy. He&apos;s prepared to stick Uncle Sam right in the middle of the age-old relationship between patients and doctors, and doctors and hospitals, all while subjugating the private health-care insurance system to the status of a&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2010\/03\/05\/the_paygo_fraud_104662.html\" >Exposing the Paygo Fraud \t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/> Jay Ambrose, Orange County Register<\/p>\n<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/2010\/03\/05\/created_or_saved_or_estimated_or_assumed_230369.html\" >Created or Saved or Estimated or Assumed \t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/> Peter Suderman, Reason<br \/>Media Inquiries and Reprint&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/news\/ap\/politics\/2010\/Mar\/04\/democrats_mired_in_swamp_they_vowed_to_drain.html\" >Dems Mired in Swamp They Vowed to Drain \t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/> Kellman &#038; Margasak, AP<br \/>A rash of ethics lapses has given Democrats an election-year headache: how to convince skeptical voters that they&apos;re any cleaner than Republicans they accused of fostering a &#8220;culture of corruption&#8221; in 2006.From the conduct of governors in Illinois and New York to back-room deals over President Barack Obama&apos;s health care overhaul, Democrats are drawing their own criticism when it comes to the ethics of public officials.The party that pledged to &#8220;drain the swamp&#8221; if given control of Congress finds itself sinking in the muck nine months from Election Day, when every&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One Giant Government Leap Backwards Larry Kudlow, RealClearMarketsRather than a post-partisan olive branch to congressional Republicans and the American public, President Obama&apos;s latest health-care speech was a declaration of war. He&apos;s more than willing to use a 51-vote reconciliation majority to jam through a roughly $2 trillion health-care plan that amounts to a government takeover [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":807,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-396329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396329","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\/807"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}