{"id":190875,"date":"2009-10-18T11:31:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-18T16:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/10\/18\/barack-and-rahm-need-to-get-over-themselves\/"},"modified":"2009-10-18T11:31:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-18T16:31:00","slug":"barack-and-rahm-need-to-get-over-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/10\/18\/barack-and-rahm-need-to-get-over-themselves\/","title":{"rendered":"Barack and Rahm Need to Get Over Themselves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, as a result of putting Republicans (Olympia Snow) and insurance whore DINOs in the driver&#8217;s seat in the Senate, the White House is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/1009\/28397.html\">getting flack from Gerry McEntee<\/a>, the president of AFSME, and the Obama and His Stupid Minions<sup>\u2122<\/sup> are describing this behavior as, &#8220;gratuitous slaps.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tough noogies, kids.  The Obama administration has been running the process on healthcare reform, and pretty much <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">everything else<\/span> as a war on the &#8220;Democratic Wing of the Democratic Party&#8221;, and somehow they are surprised when a Union President, would oppose what is literally a tax on his members just because Obama is desperate to put his name on something &#8230; anything &#8230; that he can call health care reform.<\/p>\n<p>We need more of what Mr. McEntee is doing, not less.<\/p>\n<p>H\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americablog.com\/2009\/10\/white-house-accuses-major-union-of.html\">AMERICAblog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, as a result of putting Republicans (Olympia Snow) and insurance whore DINOs in the driver&#8217;s seat in the Senate, the White House is getting flack from Gerry McEntee, the president of AFSME, and the Obama and His Stupid Minions\u2122 are describing this behavior as, &#8220;gratuitous slaps.&#8221; Tough noogies, kids. The Obama administration has been &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1046,1020,978,1022,1173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healthcare","category-legislation","category-politics","category-union","category-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190875"}],"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=190875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}