{"id":9502,"date":"2010-03-22T07:51:47","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T12:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=9502"},"modified":"2010-03-22T07:51:47","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T12:51:47","slug":"the-cheshire-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=9502","title":{"rendered":"The Cheshire President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/us_health_care_politics_analysis\">polishes a turd:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We proved that this government \u2014 a government of the people and by the people \u2014 still works for the people,&#8221; the president said late Sunday, beginning his sales pitch from the White House one hour after Congress passed the sweeping measure.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It works &#8220;for the people&#8221; &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2010\/03\/18\/fox-news-poll-oppose-health-care-reform\/\">55% of whom oppose the bill<\/a>.\u00a0 That&#8217;s two percent more than his final vote total in &#8217;08.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s like the Cheshire Cat; &#8220;&#8221;For the people&#8221; means what I say it means.\u00a0 Ummm, no more and, aaaahm, let me be perfectly clear, no less!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama polishes a turd: &#8220;We proved that this government \u2014 a government of the people and by the people \u2014 still works for the people,&#8221; the president said late Sunday, beginning his sales pitch from the White House one hour after Congress passed the sweeping measure. It works &#8220;for the people&#8221; &#8211; 55% of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,68,20,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-12","category-capitalism-v-socialism","category-democrats","category-health-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9502","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=9502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9503,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9502\/revisions\/9503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}