{"id":591,"date":"2009-07-28T16:16:41","date_gmt":"2009-07-28T23:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/?p=591"},"modified":"2009-07-28T16:19:50","modified_gmt":"2009-07-28T23:19:50","slug":"hows-that-mr-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/?p=591","title":{"rendered":"How&#8217;s that Mr. Obama?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a quote from Barack Obama in 2004.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When you rush these budgets that are a foot high and nobody has any idea what&#8217;s in them and nobody has read them&#8230;. It gets rushed through without any clear deliberations or debate then these kinds of things happen and I think this is in some ways what happened to the Patriot Act.  I mean you remember, there was no real debate about that.  It was so quick after 9\/11 that it was introduced that people felt very intimidated by the administration.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now everywhere it says <strong>Patriot Act<\/strong> replace it with either <strong>Stimulus Bill<\/strong>, or <strong>TARP<\/strong>, or <strong>Universal Health Care<\/strong>.  Hmmmmmmm.  Who was he talking about?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a quote from Barack Obama in 2004. When you rush these budgets that are a foot high and nobody has any idea what&#8217;s in them and nobody has read them&#8230;. It gets rushed through without any clear deliberations or debate then these kinds of things happen and I think this is in some ways [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":595,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions\/595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}