{"id":190696,"date":"2009-11-02T14:45:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-02T19:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/11\/02\/the-mask-falls\/"},"modified":"2009-11-02T14:45:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-02T19:45:00","slug":"the-mask-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/11\/02\/the-mask-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mask Falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Orrin Hatch admits that the real reason that Republicans oppose healthcare reform is <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/65853-hatch-health-bills-threaten-two-party-system\">because it would benefit Democrats<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Hatch asserted that the health bills, which he believes represent a &#8220;step-by-step approach to socialized medicine,&#8221; will lead to Americans&#8217; dependence on Democrats for their health and other issues.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And if they get there, of course, you&#8217;re going to have a very rough time having a two-party system in this country, because almost everybody&#8217;s going to say, &#8216;All we ever were, all we ever are, all we ever hope to be depends on the Democratic Party,&#8217; &#8221; Hatch said during an interview with the conservative CNSNews.com.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s their goal,&#8221; Hatch added. &#8220;That&#8217;s what keeps Democrats in power.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What it is all about is that they are afraid that, like the New Deal, the passage of successful programs will give the Democrats a generation in power.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not about what is right for the country, it&#8217;s about power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orrin Hatch admits that the real reason that Republicans oppose healthcare reform is because it would benefit Democrats: Hatch asserted that the health bills, which he believes represent a &#8220;step-by-step approach to socialized medicine,&#8221; will lead to Americans&#8217; dependence on Democrats for their health and other issues. &#8220;And if they get there, of course, you&#8217;re &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[969,1046,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evil","category-healthcare","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190696"}],"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=190696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}