{"id":870,"date":"2009-10-23T07:23:47","date_gmt":"2009-10-23T12:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/?p=870"},"modified":"2009-10-23T07:23:47","modified_gmt":"2009-10-23T12:23:47","slug":"democrats-got-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/democrats-got-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Got Fight?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No Way!<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"wpgallery\" title=\"NYT: &quot;Senate Leader Takes Risk Pushing Public Insurance Plan&quot; y ROBERT PEAR and DAVID M. HERSZENHORN\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/10\/23\/health\/policy\/23health.html?_r=1&amp;hp\" target=\"_blank\">Wayyyyyyyy! <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Or at least so they claim:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201c<span style=\"color: #008000;\">There is a growing sense that we need to lead on this issue and not wait for it to be offered on the Senate floor,\u201d a senior Democratic aide said. \u201cThe idea is that it\u2019s better to show some fight.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Fight<\/em>? FIGHT? From a Democrat?! I thought that word had been expunged from the Democrats&#8217; vocabulary?! <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Nonetheless, it is excruciatingly painful watching them screw up the courage to just do the right thing (a half measure though it may be), for fear of offending some rightwing curmudgeon under some rock somewhere&#8230;.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats screw up the courage to *gasp* get us partway toward a just health care system. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,13],"tags":[519,518,236,520],"class_list":["post-870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-politics","tag-democrats","tag-fight","tag-health-care","tag-public-option"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=870"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":872,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870\/revisions\/872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}