{"id":192044,"date":"2009-05-19T21:54:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-20T02:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/05\/19\/wanker-of-the-day-25\/"},"modified":"2009-05-19T21:54:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-20T02:54:00","slug":"wanker-of-the-day-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/05\/19\/wanker-of-the-day-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Wanker of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Wyden who is <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/leading-the-news\/wyden-is-winning-over-the-gop-on-healthcare-2009-05-18.html\">leading the charge to strip the public option out of health care<\/a>, because he has set his heart on, &#8220;Finding a legislative solution that can win at least 70 votes in the Senate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dude, if you come up with a solution that works, it <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">condemns the Republicans to at least 40 years in the wilderness<\/span>, so the only thing that they will support will be something that <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">doesn&#8217;t work<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Both ideologically and tactically, it is against their interests to pass comprehensive health care reform.<\/p>\n<p>The stimulus package passed with 3 Republican votes in the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">entire congress<\/span>, Social Security passed <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">without a single Republican vote<\/span>, and you think that somehow getting 12 Republicans to vote you way is going to happen with any proposal with real merit.<\/p>\n<p>You sir, are an idiot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Wyden who is leading the charge to strip the public option out of health care, because he has set his heart on, &#8220;Finding a legislative solution that can win at least 70 votes in the Senate.&#8221; Dude, if you come up with a solution that works, it condemns the Republicans to at least 40 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1046,1020,982,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-healthcare","category-legislation","category-stupid","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192044"}],"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=192044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}