{"id":2000,"date":"2009-11-10T18:28:59","date_gmt":"2009-11-10T23:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=2000"},"modified":"2009-11-10T18:30:07","modified_gmt":"2009-11-10T23:30:07","slug":"deparles-departure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/2000\/deparles-departure\/","title":{"rendered":"DeParle&#8217;s Departure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As health care reform sprints towards the finish line, one can&#8217;t help but wonder what repercussions the triumph of Obamacare might have for the White House staff.<\/p>\n<p>I speak specifically of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nancy-Ann_DeParle\" target=\"_blank\">Nancy-Ann DeParle<\/a>, the President&#8217;s &#8220;health reform&#8221; czar. One hopes that, in fidelity to his promise of good government, Obama would demand Deparle&#8217;s letter of resignation immediately upon signing health care reform into law.\u00a0 After all, what&#8217;s left for the reform czar once the sole objective of her employment is achieved? Unfortunately, the answer to that question is probably &#8220;a taxpayer-financed salary and all the perks of White House employment until President Obama heads back to Chicago.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As health care reform sprints towards the finish line, one can&#8217;t help but wonder what repercussions the triumph of Obamacare might have for the White House staff. I speak specifically of Nancy-Ann DeParle, the President&#8217;s &#8220;health reform&#8221; czar. One hopes that, in fidelity to his promise of good government, Obama would demand Deparle&#8217;s letter of [&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":[143,465,471],"class_list":["post-2000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-health-care-reform","tag-nancy-ann-deparle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000","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=2000"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2002,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000\/revisions\/2002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}