{"id":2036,"date":"2009-11-21T08:46:02","date_gmt":"2009-11-21T13:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=2036"},"modified":"2009-11-21T08:46:02","modified_gmt":"2009-11-21T13:46:02","slug":"saturday-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2009\/11\/21\/saturday-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Big day in the Senate today, as it&#8217;s up to one or two douchebags to allow the Senate to actually talk about health care reform.  Not whether to pass it &#8211; or even to allow a <strong><em>vote<\/em><\/strong> on passing it &#8211; but to allow it to come to the floor for debate and amendment.  Pretty stupid system, but one you&#8217;ll never see changed as long as it serves to give egomaniacs like Joe Lieberman a form of &#8220;power.&#8221;  On the bright side, <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/68897-sen-wyden-wins-big-healthcare-concession\">it appears that there&#8217;s been an agreement on the &#8220;Wyden Amendment,&#8221;<\/a> which would allow people &#8211; not <strong><em>all<\/em><\/strong> people, of course, but some &#8211; to opt out of their employer&#8217;s insurance plan, and opt in to a public one.  <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also a big weekend for the teabaggers, who will be storming DC in an effort to give aid and comfort to the enemies of reform.  Not only that, but their hero &#8211; Doug Hoffman &#8211; will be deciding on whether or not to contest the election for NY&#8217;s 23rd District, based on his claims of ballot tampering (he&#8217;s got evidence &#8211; honest &#8211; but will only make it public if and when he decides to contest the election that he&#8217;s un-un-un-conceded.  <\/p>\n<p>In related news, Roy Williams would like to un-concede his North Carolina Tar Heels 87-71 loss to Syracuse last night. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big day in the Senate today, as it&#8217;s up to one or two douchebags to allow the Senate to actually talk about health care reform. Not whether to pass it &#8211; or even to allow a vote on passing it &#8211; but to allow it to come to the floor for debate and amendment. Pretty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2037,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036\/revisions\/2037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}