{"id":2267,"date":"2009-12-15T06:39:58","date_gmt":"2009-12-15T11:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=2267"},"modified":"2009-12-15T06:39:58","modified_gmt":"2009-12-15T11:39:58","slug":"joe-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2009\/12\/15\/joe-wins\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Wins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, it appears that, with direct help from Rahm Emanuel,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2009\/12\/14\/rahm-emanuel-personally-p_n_391786.html\"> Joe Lieberman has managed to kill the latest version of health care reform<\/a> that included a medicare buy in for some people age 55+.  As far as I can tell, what&#8217;s left is a plan to force everybody to buy insurance with no provision to hold down premiums.  Joe and his insurance company owners win.  So, I think it&#8217;s time to just bullet in the brain of this so-called reform and give up.  This is worse than doing nothing at all.  I understand that Senate rules allow a minority of Senators that represent a tiny fraction of the population to have Caesar-like control of the process (unless Republicans are in the majority, in which case the rules are vastly different), so it&#8217;s time to do the only thing left &#8211; kill the bill and take your lumps at the polls in the next election.  It&#8217;s time to stop protecting and apologizing for the White House.  And of course it&#8217;s time to cut Lieberman loose.  There&#8217;s really no point in having him caucus with the Democrats if he&#8217;s not going to vote with them.  If the Republicans want him, fine.  And if Connecticut wants him, good for them. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, it appears that, with direct help from Rahm Emanuel, Joe Lieberman has managed to kill the latest version of health care reform that included a medicare buy in for some people age 55+. As far as I can tell, what&#8217;s left is a plan to force everybody to buy insurance with no provision to [&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-2267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2267","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=2267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2268,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2267\/revisions\/2268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}