{"id":360,"date":"2009-08-27T13:56:41","date_gmt":"2009-08-27T17:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=360"},"modified":"2009-08-28T13:11:30","modified_gmt":"2009-08-28T17:11:30","slug":"rep-pete-stark-blue-dog-dems-are-brain-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/360\/rep-pete-stark-blue-dog-dems-are-brain-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Pete Stark:  Blue Dog Dems are &#8220;brain dead&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Congressman Pete Stark (D-CA), the reason the moderate blue dogs are opposed to or are working to change the House health care bill is because they are &#8220;brain dead,&#8221; looking for campaign contributions from insurance companies, and are promoting &#8220;a right-wing agenda.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Stark made the comments during a conference call today with reporters, which was\u00a0hosted by the ultra-liberal\u00a0Campaign for America&#8217;s Future.\u00a0 According to\u00a0an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/article.php?id=D9ABB88O1&amp;show_article=1\" target=\"_blank\">Associated Press piece<\/a>, Stark&#8217;s specific words were:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>They&#8217;re for the most part, I hate to say, brain dead, but they&#8217;re just looking to raise money from\u00a0insurance companies\u00a0and promote a right-wing agenda that is not really very useful in this whole process.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the full AP story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/article.php?id=D9ABB88O1&amp;show_article=1\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Congressman Pete Stark (D-CA), the reason the moderate blue dogs are opposed to or are working to change the House health care bill is because they are &#8220;brain dead,&#8221; looking for campaign contributions from insurance companies, and are promoting &#8220;a right-wing agenda.&#8221; Stark made the comments during a conference call today with reporters, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[74,12,73],"class_list":["post-360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-blue-dogs","tag-health-care","tag-pete-stark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":393,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions\/393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}