{"id":1194,"date":"2009-10-08T02:37:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-08T06:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=1194"},"modified":"2009-10-08T14:36:10","modified_gmt":"2009-10-08T18:36:10","slug":"et-tu-bob-dole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/1194\/et-tu-bob-dole\/","title":{"rendered":"Et tu, Bob Dole?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/voices.kansascity.com\/node\/6136\">A column in the <em>Kansas City Star<\/em><\/a> reports that former Senate Majority Leader and presidential candidate Bob Dole is urging Republican members of Congress to vote for President Obama&#8217;s healthcare reform plan. The piece quotes Dole as saying &#8220;I want this to pass. I don&#8217;t agree with everything Obama is presenting, but we&#8217;ve got to do something.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The last five words of that sentence should be anathema to any red-blooded conservative. Is there any other serious situation in life where you could justifiably invoke a similar rationale? Is that the sort of thing you&#8217;d like to hear your surgeon say?<\/p>\n<p>How about &#8220;doing something&#8221; effective? How about &#8220;doing something&#8221; that solves rather than compounds a problem? Caring about actions makes you a politician. But caring about outcomes makes you a statesmen. That puts Bob Dole&#8217;s record at 1-1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A column in the Kansas City Star reports that former Senate Majority Leader and presidential candidate Bob Dole is urging Republican members of Congress to vote for President Obama&#8217;s healthcare reform plan. The piece quotes Dole as saying &#8220;I want this to pass. I don&#8217;t agree with everything Obama is presenting, but we&#8217;ve got to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[143,255,12],"class_list":["post-1194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-bob-dole","tag-health-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1194"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1201,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions\/1201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}