{"id":4909,"date":"2012-04-02T16:47:49","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T23:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2012\/04\/02\/festering-turd-of-healthcare-reform\/"},"modified":"2012-04-02T16:47:49","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T23:47:49","slug":"festering-turd-of-healthcare-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2012\/04\/02\/festering-turd-of-healthcare-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"Festering Turd of Healthcare Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/festering-turd.jpg' title='festering-turd.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/festering-turd.jpg' alt='festering-turd.jpg' width='350' class='right' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think the president made a thinly-veiled threat against the Supreme Court today at a joint press conference with a couple of America&#8217;s other enemies &#8211; Calderon of Mexico and (to a lesser extent) Harper of Canada.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The president, adopting what he described as the language of conservatives who fret about judicial activism, questioned how an &#8220;<strong>unelected group of people<\/strong>&#8221; could overturn a law approved by Congress.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a <strong>strong majority<\/strong> of a democratically elected Congress,&#8221; Obama said. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Strong majority? This <em>festering turd<\/em> of a healthcare law was passed by a 219-212 margin in the House of Representatives. His &#8220;strong majority&#8221; characterization is just another example of how out of touch with reality the president is. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/current_events\/healthcare\/health_care_law\">Fifty-six percent<\/a> of Americans reject the mandate &#8211; there&#8217;s the &#8220;strong majority&#8221; on this issue.<\/p>\n<p>Cartoon via <a href=\"http:\/\/patriotpost.us\/edition\/2012\/04\/02\/brief\/\">The Patriot Post<\/a>. Click to enlarge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think the president made a thinly-veiled threat against the Supreme Court today at a joint press conference with a couple of America&#8217;s other enemies &#8211;&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,12,27,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beltway-kabuki","category-international","category-judiciary","category-whacko-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}