{"id":3844,"date":"2010-02-18T11:36:01","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T16:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=3844"},"modified":"2010-02-18T16:14:25","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T21:14:25","slug":"stop-talking-start-doing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/3844\/stop-talking-start-doing\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop Talking; Start Doing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First, President Obama \u201cinvited\u201d Republicans to view the Democrats unveil yet another version of ObamaCare (live on television, to make up for all those previously broken promises of an open process).\u00a0 That little trap is scheduled for next week.<\/p>\n<p>Now, House Republicans want Democrats to debate unemployment on live television.\u00a0 That is scheduled for&#8230;never, we think.<\/p>\n<p>There is, of course, considerable evidence that nothing is real that doesn\u2019t appear on television.\u00a0 But if all this talking is only about political oneupsmanship, as it surely seems, we would modestly suggest that pistols at dawn make better television (commercial proceeds going to reduce the deficit), with much greater personal and public consequence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, President Obama \u201cinvited\u201d Republicans to view the Democrats unveil yet another version of ObamaCare (live on television, to make up for all those previously broken promises of an open process).\u00a0 That little trap is scheduled for next week. Now, House Republicans want Democrats to debate unemployment on live television.\u00a0 That is scheduled for&#8230;never, we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,14,18],"class_list":["post-3844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-health-care","tag-president-obama","tag-unemployment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3844","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3844"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3862,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3844\/revisions\/3862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}