{"id":5557,"date":"2009-10-15T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-15T17:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5557"},"modified":"2010-07-07T20:08:11","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T01:08:11","slug":"pass-the-buck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5557","title":{"rendered":"Pass The Buck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So why did Olympia &#8220;Oly&#8221; Snowe vote for Obamacare?<\/p>\n<p>Because she&#8217;s a states<strike>manly<\/strike>personly visionary who is looking beyond party politics?<\/p>\n<p>Or because her own state&#8217;s socialized-medicine boondoggle is rapidly going broke?<\/p>\n<p>Steven Spruill <a href=\"http:\/\/corner.nationalreview.com\/post\/?q=YTVkYmFjODQ1YzZiNDFlNjA1MWM1NTA0YTNmZjIyNzk=\">notes<\/a> at NRO<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Obamacare would relieve a handful of northeastern states, including Maine, of the burden of funding their broken, heavily regulated and subsidized health-care systems while imposing new burdens on the South and Midwest in the form of expanded eligibility for Medicaid. Of course Snowe voted for this bill. It&#8217;s a bailout for Maine.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Glenn Reynolds <a href=\"<a href=\"http:\/\/pajamasmedia.com\/instapundit\/86770\/%22%3Eadds%3C\/a\">http:\/\/pajamasmedia.com\/instapundit\/86770\/&#8221;>adds<\/a<\/a>> &#8220;I just admire the name \u201cDirigoChoice.\u201d\u00a0 I like it, if only because with my monitor (set to really high resolution), it reads &#8220;Dingochoice&#8221;, which is really funny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So why did Olympia &#8220;Oly&#8221; Snowe vote for Obamacare? Because she&#8217;s a statesmanlypersonly visionary who is looking beyond party politics? Or because her own state&#8217;s socialized-medicine boondoggle is rapidly going broke? Steven Spruill notes at NRO: Obamacare would relieve a handful of northeastern states, including Maine, of the burden of funding their broken, heavily regulated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5557","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=5557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11893,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5557\/revisions\/11893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}