{"id":198005,"date":"2007-12-21T00:15:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-21T05:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/12\/21\/whisky-tango-foxtrot-the-dems-cave-on-schip\/"},"modified":"2007-12-21T00:15:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-21T05:15:00","slug":"whisky-tango-foxtrot-the-dems-cave-on-schip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/12\/21\/whisky-tango-foxtrot-the-dems-cave-on-schip\/","title":{"rendered":"Whisky Tango Foxtrot:  The Dems Cave on SCHIP????"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What the hell are they thinking????<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/leading-the-news\/dems-give-up-schip-fight-until-the-11th-2007-12-19.html\">They just passed a bill extending SCHIP as it currently exists until March 2009<\/a>.  This is acutally a cut, because Bush has issued executive orders to reduce the scope of the existing program.<\/p>\n<p>I understand the extension, but they could have extended it for 3 months, or 6 months, or 9 months, and forced the Republicans to come back to this tremendously popular program, again, and again, and again.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of this, which is a win-win, the kids get their insurance, and the Republicans shoot themselves in the foot, they took it off the table.<\/p>\n<p>**sigh**<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What the hell are they thinking???? They just passed a bill extending SCHIP as it currently exists until March 2009. This is acutally a cut, because Bush has issued executive orders to reduce the scope of the existing program. I understand the extension, but they could have extended it for 3 months, or 6 months, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1046,978,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-healthcare","category-politics","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198005"}],"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=198005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}