{"id":16735,"date":"2010-02-15T18:00:31","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T01:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/02\/15\/unblogged-bits-for-monday-15-february-2010-2.html"},"modified":"2010-02-15T18:00:31","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T01:00:31","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-monday-15-february-2010-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/02\/15\/unblogged-bits-for-monday-15-february-2010-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Monday, 15 February 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"
Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries …. <\/p>\n
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  1. Let\u2019s Not Help the Right Manufacture A Perception That Creates An Alternative Reality<\/a> – “I have has shifted from focusing on Republicans and the conservative\/Tea Party movement during the Bush era to focusing more on Democrats and the progressive movement because this is no longer the Bush era \u2013 this is a moment when Democrats are in power. Again, I\u2019ll criticize the former, but only under strict parameters that doesn\u2019t help perpetuate a fantasy that unnecessarily empowers the right.” An interesting (and very worthy) perspective.<\/li>\n
  2. 95% Of Americans Got Tax Cuts; 12% Know It; Tea Partiers Least Informed<\/a> – It doesn’t matter what’s real — it just matters what the Fox Pundits et al. repeat often enough.<\/li>\n
  3. Joe The Plumber On McCain: \u201cHe Really Screwed My Life Up\u201d<\/a> – Explain to me why, many fifteen minutes later, I should give a flying fig about what Joe the Plumber thinks? About anything?<\/li>\n
  4. John Boehner Attacks WH For Not Putting Health Care Proposal Online, Then Attacks It For Doing So<\/a> – Bipartisanship is so lovely to see.<\/li>\n
  5. Top five health insurers posted 56 percent profit gains in 2009<\/a> – Best Health Care System In The World! (If you’re a stock holder.)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries …. Let\u2019s Not Help the Right Manufacture A Perception That Creates An Alternative Reality – “I have has shifted from focusing on Republicans and the conservative\/Tea Party movement during the Bush era to focusing more on Democrats and the progressive … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits for Monday, 15 February 2010”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":40309,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/06\/the-tea-party-declares-war.html","url_meta":{"origin":16735,"position":0},"title":"The Tea Party Declares War!","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 6-Jan-14 6:52pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Or so says the email I got from them (the TeaParty.net folks), attacking \"the RINO elitist GOP establishment who are, unabashedly, at war with the party's own base, the energized, principled grassroots Tea Party movement.\"Paging\u00a0Manichaeus, paging Prophet\u00a0Manichaeus ... please pick up the white courtesy phone ...'Using the GOP Establishment as\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":51491,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/17\/and-yet-another-bush-plans-to-privatize-social-security.html","url_meta":{"origin":16735,"position":1},"title":"And yet another Bush plans to privatize Social Security","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 17-Jun-15 12:25pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Because turning Social Security Insurance into a stock market-driven crap shoot is a fantastic idea ... if you're big into investment houses and not dependent on Social Security.Jeb Bush has been personally involved in enough financial meltdowns that he should know a lot better. 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