{"id":3543,"date":"2010-02-01T11:51:45","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T16:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=3543"},"modified":"2010-02-01T11:59:02","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T16:59:02","slug":"before-scott-brown-democrats-had-a-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/3543\/before-scott-brown-democrats-had-a-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Before Scott Brown, Democrats Had a Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/78889-harkin-health-deal-was-reached-days-before-browns-victory\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>The Hill<\/em><\/span><\/a> newspaper, Democrats reached a tentative compromise on health care just days before Massachusetts elected Scott Brown.\u00a0 Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) stated that an agreement was reached on January 15.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Of course, it is an indictment of this Administration&#8217;s transparency pledge that you\u2019re reading about this news in February and didn\u2019t watch the discussions <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.tv\/the-c-span-lie-did-obama-really-promise-televised-healthcare-negotiations\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">live on C-SPAN<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 Senator Harkin&#8217;s revelation underscores just how deceptive the White House was in negotiating the future of health care behind closed doors and how important Scott Brown\u2019s victory was in defeating ObamaCare.<\/p>\n<p>A few million Americans in Massachusetts made their voices heard\u00a0loud and clear, but judging from last week\u2019s State of the Union Address, the White House is still not listening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to The Hill newspaper, Democrats reached a tentative compromise on health care just days before Massachusetts elected Scott Brown.\u00a0 Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) stated that an agreement was reached on January 15.\u00a0 Of course, it is an indictment of this Administration&#8217;s transparency pledge that you\u2019re reading about this news in February and didn\u2019t watch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,159,35,725,673,44],"class_list":["post-3543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-health-care","tag-massachusetts","tag-obamacare","tag-scott-brown","tag-tom-harkin","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3543","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3543"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3545,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3543\/revisions\/3545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}