{"id":457572,"date":"2010-03-22T07:49:20","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T11:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=74551"},"modified":"2010-03-22T07:49:20","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T11:49:20","slug":"early-morning-swim-the-house-passes-health-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/457572","title":{"rendered":"Early Morning Swim: The House Passes Health Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-74552\" href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/2010\/03\/22\/early-morning-swim-the-house-passes-health-reform\/pelosi2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-74552\" title=\"pelosi2\" src=\"http:\/\/static1.firedoglake.com\/1\/files\/2010\/03\/pelosi2-300x220.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a>Big media reactions <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/22\/health\/policy\/22health.html?hp\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/03\/21\/AR2010032100943.html?hpid=topnews\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/features\/health\/la-na-healthcare-passage22-2010mar22,0,2788293.story\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2010\/POLITICS\/03\/22\/health.care.main\/?hpt=T1\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Blog reactions <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/archives\/2010\/03\/results_are_all_that_matter.php#more?ref=fpblg\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/archives\/individual\/2010_03\/022984.php\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openleft.com\/diary\/17946\/overnight-open-thread\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/digbysblog.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/finish-line.html\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com\/2010\/03\/219\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/corner.nationalreview.com\/post\/?q=NmYwMmE4MTAyNWE2MzlmNzkwNjg5MzFkOTQ2ZDcxZGQ=\">Wah<\/a>!<\/li>\n<li>Boehner and Pence: two of the biggest asshats <a href=\"http:\/\/digbysblog.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/whats-new.html\">on the planet.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.frumforum.com\/waterloo\">David Frum<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class='wbq'>\n<p><strong>Conservatives and Republicans today suffered their most crushing  legislative defeat since the 1960s.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>We followed the most radical voices in the party and the movement,  and they led us to abject and irreversible defeat.<\/p>\n<p>There were leaders who knew better, who would have liked to deal. But  they were trapped. Conservative talkers on Fox and talk radio had  whipped the Republican voting base into such a frenzy that deal-making  was rendered impossible. <strong>How do you negotiate with somebody who wants to  murder your grandmother? Or \u2013 more exactly \u2013 with somebody whom your  voters have been persuaded to believe wants to murder their grandmother?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Epic teabagging fail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagList\">Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/tag\/early-morning-swim\/\" rel=\"tag\">Early Morning Swim<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/tag\/health-care-reform\/\" rel=\"tag\">health care reform<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/share-this\/share-icon-16x16.gif\" alt=\"Share This icon\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=74551&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"Email, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_74551\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"noindex nofollow\">&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big media reactions here, here, here and here. Blog reactions here, here, here, here and here. Wah! Boehner and Pence: two of the biggest asshats on the planet. David Frum: Conservatives and Republicans today suffered their most crushing legislative defeat since the 1960s. [&#8230;] We followed the most radical voices in the party and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5394,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457572","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\/5394"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}