Obama is \u201creviewing\u201d his First Term promises for the Middle East<\/a>, now that\u2019s it\u2019s all going to pot.\u00a0 Best lines:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
\u201cThey might describe it as \u201creview\u201d of foreign policy, it is actually a shutdown process; the act of shooting all the remaining sheep in the corral prior to boarding up the ranch\u00a0and putting up the \u201cfor sale\u201d sign.\u201d<\/p>\n
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And this gem later, describing how the perverse financial incentives in Obama-care create a death spiral for private insurance companies:<\/p>\n
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\u201c . . . [T]he president is basically busing high risk applicants into a lower risk pool. Those who can,\u00a0will flee the neighborhood. That will leave only those who have nowhere else to go stuck in it, \u00a0making Obamacare the health insurance equivalent of Detroit.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Man, I wish I could write like that.<\/p>\n
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Joe Doakes\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Richard Fernandez has always been one of the greats. He should be a daily read for everyone who has that nagging feeling they’re not getting the whole, unvarnished story…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Great column explaining how\u00a0Obama is \u201creviewing\u201d his First Term promises for the Middle East, now that\u2019s it\u2019s all going to pot.\u00a0 Best lines: \u201cThey might describe it as \u201creview\u201d of foreign policy, it is actually a shutdown process; the act of shooting all the remaining sheep in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39576,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39575\/revisions\/39576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}