{"id":192222,"date":"2009-04-27T17:18:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-27T22:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/04\/27\/washingtons-various-serious-people-in-action\/"},"modified":"2009-04-27T17:18:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-27T22:18:00","slug":"washingtons-various-serious-people-in-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/04\/27\/washingtons-various-serious-people-in-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington&#8217;s Various Serious People in Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here we see <a href=\"http:\/\/thepoliticalcarnival.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/video-republican-susan-collins-on.html\">Republican Senator Susan Collins saying that we should cut the  stimulus money for flu pandemic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They cut the money, because they are &#8220;centrists&#8221;, and unless they do something to throw their weight around, it means nothing, so Collins killed the money on pandemic preparedness, to show &#8220;fiscal responsibility&#8221;, and we may be on the brink of a major flu outbreak.<\/p>\n<p><embed wmode=\"transparent\" bgcolor=\"black\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dailykostv.com\/dktvflv\/player.swf\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"never\" flashvars=\"config=http:\/\/www.dailykostv.com\/dktvflv\/avianfluenza.xml\" height=\"415\" width=\"480\"><\/embed><\/p>\n<p>Bobby Jindal lambasted volcano monitoring, and Mount Redoubt erupted.<\/p>\n<p>Republican spending cuts are making me <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">very<\/span> nervous about the next shoe to drop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here we see Republican Senator Susan Collins saying that we should cut the stimulus money for flu pandemic. They cut the money, because they are &#8220;centrists&#8221;, and unless they do something to throw their weight around, it means nothing, so Collins killed the money on pandemic preparedness, to show &#8220;fiscal responsibility&#8221;, and we may be &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1038,998,1074,1150,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-congress","category-medical","category-public-health","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192222"}],"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=192222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}