{"id":128374,"date":"2015-10-20T18:37:21","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T00:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/20\/meanwhile-back-in-get-rid-of-obamacare-land.html"},"modified":"2015-10-22T12:07:37","modified_gmt":"2015-10-22T18:07:37","slug":"meanwhile-back-in-get-rid-of-obamacare-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/20\/meanwhile-back-in-get-rid-of-obamacare-land.html","title":{"rendered":"Meanwhile, back in &quot;Get Rid of Obamacare&quot; Land"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The GOP can&#39;t decide whether to use reconciliation to slip something through the Senate that gets rid of just <i>some<\/i> ACA provisions, as the Far Right hardliners are insisting that they try to use the tactic to get rid of the whole Act or else they won&#39;t support the effort. The super-zany are pounding their shoes on the table insisting that the just-average-zany aren&#39;t being zany enough.<\/p>\n<p>Cato the Elder with his &quot;Carthago delenda est&quot; had nothing on these guys.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/healthcare\/257505-obamacare-repeal-effort-hits-snag-on-far-right'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/282tlX-oYTL8yXK6f2h6Pji2pz4jD9htWkWX1EVd1ja_fFTbXhZSCAjLhaOkpd4CfQkmFLi8nB2FWHG8pu5AmjhcSdXTeYI_C15hwTXLuLf2RpWOfZX2o8iKW29AhKg=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/healthcare\/257505-obamacare-repeal-effort-hits-snag-on-far-right'>ObamaCare repeal effort hits snag on far right<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nHeritage Action for America says the push is not all-encompassing enough.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/QsD8Y1WkfdT'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The GOP can&#39;t decide whether to use reconciliation to slip something through the Senate that gets rid of just some ACA provisions, as the Far Right hardliners are insisting that they try to use the tactic to get rid of the whole Act or else they won&#39;t support the effort. The super-zany are pounding their &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/20\/meanwhile-back-in-get-rid-of-obamacare-land.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Meanwhile, back in &quot;Get Rid of Obamacare&quot; Land&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,134,358],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-health-care","category-poor-citizenship"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":39915,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/06\/todays-winner-for-zany-comparisons-is.html","url_meta":{"origin":128374,"position":0},"title":"Today&#8217;s winner for &#8220;Zany Comparisons&#8221; is &#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 6-Dec-13 7:07pm","format":false,"excerpt":"If you'd enough, you'll recall \"Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom.\" \u00a0It was a great nature show back before Animal Planet and Discover and all of that.But it also was (very clearly) a sponsored TV show, as the title indicated. \u00a0And toward the end of the show, the host, Marlin Perkins,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":128622,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/06\/aliens-are-getting-rid-of-the-h2-channel.html","url_meta":{"origin":128374,"position":1},"title":"ALIENS ARE GETTING RID OF THE H2 CHANNEL!","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 6-Nov-15 3:43pm","format":false,"excerpt":"No, wait, it's not Aliens, it's A&E. 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That means between DVR sessions, movies, etc., we'll\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Giorgio%2BTsoukalos%2Byes%2Bit%2Bis.gifimgmax%3D660.gif?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":50977,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/11\/sooner-or-later-you-have-to-come-up-with-an-alternative-to-the-thing-you-dislike.html","url_meta":{"origin":128374,"position":2},"title":"Sooner or later, you have to come up with an alternative to the thing you dislike","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 11-May-15 10:42pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Karl Rove, of all people, has been telling Republicans for quite some time that if they are going to long-term find the \"Obamacare is EVIL!\" party line successful, they will need to come up with a plausible alternative that satisfies the populace. 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