{"id":38904,"date":"2013-10-01T09:42:33","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T15:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/01\/now-lets-be-fair-to-the-gop.html"},"modified":"2013-10-01T13:13:03","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T19:13:03","slug":"now-lets-be-fair-to-the-gop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/01\/now-lets-be-fair-to-the-gop.html","title":{"rendered":"Now, let's be fair to the GOP"},"content":{"rendered":"
I mean, among all their shameful moments in the past, oh,\u00a0month, this little bit of (charitably) tone-deaf and inaccurate history is probably only in the top 50.<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +Les Jenkins<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

In what may be the party\u2019s lowest moment throughout this debacle, Republican State Representative William O\u2019Brien of New Hampshire, said Obamacare is every bit as bad as the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. President Obama naturally scoffed at the very idea, but O\u2019Brien defended the analogy. \u201cJust as the Fugitive Slave Act was an overreach by the federal government,\u201d he told the Manchester Union Leader, \u201cso too we understand that Obamacare is an assault on the rights of individuals.\u201d That claim explains a lot about right wing thinking, where callousness toward universal health care is exceeded only by ignorance of slavery.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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GOP\u2019s most shameful shutdown moment<\/a>
\n There are many candidates, but comparing Obamacare to the Fugitive Slave Act reveals much — and may take the prize\n <\/p>\n

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I mean, among all their shameful moments in the past, oh,\u00a0month, this little bit of (charitably) tone-deaf and inaccurate history is probably only in the top 50. Reshared post from +Les Jenkins In what may be the party\u2019s lowest moment throughout this debacle, Republican State Representative William O\u2019Brien of New Hampshire, said Obamacare is every … Continue reading “Now, let's be fair to the GOP”<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,100,134,108,376],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-dolts","category-health-care","category-history","category-taxing-spending"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":51416,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/10\/john-thune-obamacare-and-blaming-the-victim.html","url_meta":{"origin":38904,"position":0},"title":"John Thune, Obamacare, and Blaming the Victim","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 10-Jun-15 9:43am","format":false,"excerpt":"After the GOP and conservatives have done everything within their power short of armed revolt to destroy the Affordable Care Act, culminating in the ludicrous King v Burwell case before SCOTUS, Sen. 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