“It’s like the Salem witch trials, and healthcare is the witches,” Frank said. “There is mass hysteria.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
That’s right.\u00a0 Obamacare is an innocent victim, caught up in mob hysteria (because what is the only thing mass movements do, when they’re not electing pretty-boy empty suits\u00a0 to the Presidency?), supported only by a political party that came into this term with a near-epic mandate (although get back to us in November).\u00a0<\/p>\n
Just like those witches.<\/p>\n
I’ll give him some credit.\u00a0 He got it half right.\u00a0 At least Obamacare deserves to be lit on fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In the immortal words of some Oscar-winning song or another, It’s Hard Out There For A Pimp. Even a poverty-pimp who’s held a sinecure largely on the basis of “elite” business connections that’d make Ken Lay blanche with embarassment. That’d be Barney Frank.\u00a0 The guy’s got a tough row to hoe, and I think the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-10","category-capitalism-v-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9475","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=9475"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9517,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9475\/revisions\/9517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}