{"id":5123,"date":"2009-07-23T12:23:34","date_gmt":"2009-07-23T17:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5123"},"modified":"2009-07-23T12:23:34","modified_gmt":"2009-07-23T17:23:34","slug":"you-behave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5123","title":{"rendered":"You, behave!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3482\/3749168023_d519cfe3ef.jpg?v=0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Congressional Budget Office has been misbehavin&#8217; &#8211; how <em>dare <\/em>they assert that Government health care won&#8217;t <em>save <\/em>us money.<\/p>\n<p>Obammy <strong>says <\/strong>it will!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052970203517304574304343697759178.html\">This may explain the treatment of Douglas Elmendorf, the director of the  supposedly nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office<\/a> who last week told Congress  that you can\u2019t \u201csave\u201d money on health care by having government insure everyone.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;because <em>they <\/em>can do math, unlike <a href=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2549\/3666614334_a1f35c57be.jpg?v=0\">Jimmy II<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For that bit of truth-telling, he was first excoriated by Senate Majority  Leader Harry Reid.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;a badge of courage as far as I&#8217;m concerned.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Then he was summoned, er, invited to the White House for an  extraordinary and inappropriate meeting Monday with President Obama and a  phalanx of economic and health-care advisers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Advisers should be in quotes methinks.<\/p>\n<p>Shall we call them the Obama Spanking Machine<sup>\u2122<\/sup>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Congressional Budget Office has been misbehavin&#8217; &#8211; how dare they assert that Government health care won&#8217;t save us money. Obammy says it will! This may explain the treatment of Douglas Elmendorf, the director of the supposedly nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office who last week told Congress that you can\u2019t \u201csave\u201d money on health care by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,64,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care","category-president-obama","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5123","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\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}