{"id":196509,"date":"2008-04-18T17:10:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-18T22:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/18\/bush-and-his-evil-minions-break-the-law-again\/"},"modified":"2008-04-18T17:10:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-18T22:10:00","slug":"bush-and-his-evil-minions-break-the-law-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/18\/bush-and-his-evil-minions-break-the-law-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush and His Evil Minions\u2122 Break the Law&#8230;.Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why am I not surprised.<\/p>\n<p>This time though, it wasn&#8217;t to <strike>spy on political opponents<\/strike> find terrorists, and it wasn&#8217;t to <strike>torture children<\/strike> gain important intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>This time, it was to <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/leading-the-news\/bushs-schip-policy-violates-law-report-says-2008-04-18.html\">make sure that children did not get medical care<\/a>, because the insurance companies contribute to Republicans.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>The Bush administration\u2019s limits on expansions of the State Children\u2019s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) are unlawful, according to Congress\u2019s investigative arm.<\/p>\n<p>The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) unlawfully bypassed congressional review when it issued a directive to states in August alerting them that federal authorities would seek to restrict raising the income eligibility level for the program, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) concluded in a report issued Thursday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**Sigh**<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why am I not surprised. This time though, it wasn&#8217;t to spy on political opponents find terrorists, and it wasn&#8217;t to torture children gain important intelligence. This time, it was to make sure that children did not get medical care, because the insurance companies contribute to Republicans. The Bush administration\u2019s limits on expansions of the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,969,1046,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-evil","category-healthcare","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196509"}],"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=196509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}