{"id":1147,"date":"2010-03-26T10:05:42","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T14:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/?p=1147"},"modified":"2010-03-26T10:06:37","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T14:06:37","slug":"catcher-in-the-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/26\/catcher-in-the-lie\/","title":{"rendered":"Catcher in the lie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20100326\/ap_on_bi_ge\/us_health_care_overhaul\" target=\"_blank\">this article on the health care bill<\/a> from the AP:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In Iowa on Thursday to trumpet the benefits of the legislation, Obama said, &#8220;We made a promise. That promise has been kept.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yay, one in a row.  The fact that he broke an estimated 3,254 *other* promises to keep *this* one goes unmentioned.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Five days of public comment before signing bills&#8221;?  Didn&#8217;t see it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Negotiate health care reform in public sessions televised on C-SPAN&#8221;?  Must&#8217;ve been preempted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;New era of bi-partisanship&#8221;?  Hell, he had to buy votes from his *own* party.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Most open and transparent administration in history&#8221;?  Well, we can give him this one.  He didn&#8217;t promise it would be *honest*, and it&#8217;s transparently *not*.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From this article on the health care bill from the AP: In Iowa on Thursday to trumpet the benefits of the legislation, Obama said, &#8220;We made a promise. That promise has been kept.&#8221; Yay, one in a row. The fact that he broke an estimated 3,254 *other* promises to keep *this* one goes unmentioned. &#8220;Five [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}