{"id":190690,"date":"2009-11-02T22:20:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-03T03:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/11\/02\/ill-believe-it-when-i-see-it-3\/"},"modified":"2009-11-02T22:20:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-03T03:20:00","slug":"ill-believe-it-when-i-see-it-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/11\/02\/ill-believe-it-when-i-see-it-3\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ll Believe it When I See It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, the House Republicans are now claiming that they will be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/topNews\/idUSTRE5A01I920091102?feedType=RSS&amp;feedName=topNews\">floating out their own healthcare reform program<\/a> &#8220;really soon now&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives plan to offer an alternative to Democrats&#8217; massive healthcare reform bill that would not raise taxes or require people or businesses to buy health insurance, the House Republican leader said on Sunday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s not gonna happen.<\/p>\n<p>First, the Republicans are simply too invested in &#8220;No&#8221;, and second, their proposal will have to hew to the ideology of their caucus, which will make it so absolutely appalling that it will send Blue Dogs gibbering to demand a public option,<\/p>\n<p>Not&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Gonna&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Happen&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, the House Republicans are now claiming that they will be floating out their own healthcare reform program &#8220;really soon now&#8221;: Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives plan to offer an alternative to Democrats&#8217; massive healthcare reform bill that would not raise taxes or require people or businesses to buy health insurance, the House &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1046,1020],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-healthcare","category-legislation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190690"}],"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=190690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}