{"id":188798,"date":"2010-07-27T21:22:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T02:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/07\/27\/blue-dog-dem-goes-chicken-for-mris\/"},"modified":"2010-07-27T21:22:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-28T02:22:00","slug":"blue-dog-dem-goes-chicken-for-mris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/07\/27\/blue-dog-dem-goes-chicken-for-mris\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Dog Dem Goes Chicken for MRIs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; width: 350px; float: right; text-align: center;\"><object height=\"221\" width=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/CbDyem1cKEw&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/CbDyem1cKEw&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"221\" width=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Stupid is as stupid does<\/span><\/div>\n<p>Ben Chandler of Kentucky <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/plum-line\/2010\/07\/now_a_blue_dog_democrat_is_tal.html?wprss=plum-line\">spoke approvingly of the days when people paid their doctors with chickens<\/a>, and a constituent got it on tape.<\/p>\n<p>He voted against the healthcare bill, because he&#8217;s a Blue Dog, and he kisses health insurer&#8217;s asses.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, this is not as bad as Sue Lowden&#8217;s doubling down on barter for MRIs, he was just being nostalgic, but it&#8217;s likely that his Republican opponent will hammer him for it anyway, and I, for one, am glad.<\/p>\n<p>We need fewer faux Dems in the Congress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stupid is as stupid does Ben Chandler of Kentucky spoke approvingly of the days when people paid their doctors with chickens, and a constituent got it on tape. He voted against the healthcare bill, because he&#8217;s a Blue Dog, and he kisses health insurer&#8217;s asses. Obviously, this is not as bad as Sue Lowden&#8217;s doubling &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1000,1198,982,1027],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-elections","category-health","category-stupid","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188798"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}