{"id":827,"date":"2010-03-21T21:54:47","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T04:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/2010\/03\/21\/scary\/"},"modified":"2010-03-21T21:54:47","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T04:54:47","slug":"scary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/21\/scary\/","title":{"rendered":"Scary"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;Tonight&#8217;s vote is not a victory for any one party [Obama said] \u2026 It&#8217;s a victory for the American people, and it&#8217;s a victory for common sense.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In a reference to his 2008 campaign slogan, Obama added, \u201cThis is what change looks like.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0310\/34783.html\" target=\"_blank\">Scary.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>In addition:<\/p>\n<p>The magnificently astute Glenn Greenwald <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/opinion\/glenn_greenwald\/2010\/03\/20\/health_care\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">has a spot-on take<\/a> on the new power of special-interest groups in the Obama establishment.<\/p>\n<p>Why the largest health-care labor union so desperately lobbied for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcsdaily.com\/article.aspx?id=031910A\" target=\"_blank\">the Dreaded Law<\/a>. (Hint: It had nothing to do with health. Or care.)<\/p>\n<p>Finally, here\u2019s the former director of the Congressional Budget Office <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/21\/opinion\/21holtz-eakin.html\" target=\"_blank\">looking beyond the budgetary jiggery-pokery<\/a> to the real (short-term) cost of the health-care law.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah. Like I said. Scary. But then, you knew that, didn&#8217;t you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Tonight&#8217;s vote is not a victory for any one party [Obama said] \u2026 It&#8217;s a victory for the American people, and it&#8217;s a victory for common sense.&#8221; In a reference to his 2008 campaign slogan, Obama added, \u201cThis is what change looks like.\u201d Scary. &#8212;&#8211; In addition: The magnificently astute Glenn Greenwald has a spot-on take on the new power of special-interest groups in the Obama establishment. Why the largest health-care labor union so desperately lobbied for the Dreaded Law. (Hint: It had nothing to do with health. Or care.) Finally, here\u2019s the former director of the Congressional Budget Office&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/21\/scary\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Scary<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-poly-ticks","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}