{"id":191437,"date":"2009-08-16T12:33:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-16T17:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/08\/16\/these-people-are-unappeasable\/"},"modified":"2009-08-16T12:33:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-16T17:33:00","slug":"these-people-are-unappeasable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/08\/16\/these-people-are-unappeasable\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;These People Are Unappeasable&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Krugman nails it on MSNBC:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"320\" height=\"260\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/cloudfront.mediamatters.org\/static\/flash\/mediaplayer316.swf\"><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"config=http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/embed\/cfg?flv=http:\/\/cloudfront.mediamatters.org\/static\/video\/2009\/08\/14\/msnbc-20090814-krugman.flv\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/cloudfront.mediamatters.org\/static\/flash\/mediaplayer316.swf\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" flashvars=\"config=http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/embed\/cfg?flv=http:\/\/cloudfront.mediamatters.org\/static\/video\/2009\/08\/14\/msnbc-20090814-krugman.flv\" width=\"320\" height=\"260\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Of course, this does not prevent the White House from <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/44\/2009\/08\/16\/sebelius_signals_embrace_of_co.html?wprss=44\">capitulating on the public option<\/a>, because, as I&#8217;ve said before, Barack Obama does not care about healthcare reform, he cares about being able to sign some sort of healthcare reform bill, even if it is bad and has no real reform, because he gets to <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">claim<\/span> success.<\/p>\n<p>They are talking Co-Ops, which we <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">know<\/span> won&#8217;t work, because they <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">haven&#8217;t<\/span> worked.  If they were even marginally successful, we would see hundreds of them, some of them <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">huge<\/span>, and we don&#8217;t&#8230;.They can be counted on the fingers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Krugman nails it on MSNBC: Of course, this does not prevent the White House from capitulating on the public option, because, as I&#8217;ve said before, Barack Obama does not care about healthcare reform, he cares about being able to sign some sort of healthcare reform bill, even if it is bad and has no real &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1046,978,1027,1173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healthcare","category-politics","category-video","category-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191437"}],"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=191437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}