{"id":191156,"date":"2009-09-17T18:08:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-17T23:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/09\/17\/thank-you-rod-blagojevich\/"},"modified":"2009-09-17T18:08:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-17T23:08:00","slug":"thank-you-rod-blagojevich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/09\/17\/thank-you-rod-blagojevich\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank You Rod Blagojevich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Really, I&#8217;m serious about this, because Roland Burris knows that he will not get another term, and he knows that his value as a Washington lobbyist is nil, he does not have to kowtow to the insurance lobby, so he has announced that he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/livepulse\/0909\/Burris_Wont_vote_for_a_bill_without_a_public_option.html\">will not vote for a healthcare bill without a public option<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In creating the lamest of lame ducks, Burris won&#8217;t be able to work in DC at all once he is out of office, Blago has created a man who can do the right thing, because he has <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">nothing<\/span> to lose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Really, I&#8217;m serious about this, because Roland Burris knows that he will not get another term, and he knows that his value as a Washington lobbyist is nil, he does not have to kowtow to the insurance lobby, so he has announced that he will not vote for a healthcare bill without a public option. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,970,1046,1020],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-corruption","category-healthcare","category-legislation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191156"}],"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=191156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}