{"id":3913,"date":"2010-02-22T14:14:02","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T19:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=3913"},"modified":"2010-02-22T14:14:02","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T19:14:02","slug":"the-president-who-just-wont-listen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/3913\/the-president-who-just-wont-listen\/","title":{"rendered":"The President Who Just Won&#8217;t Listen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Time and again \u2013 in polls, in protests, in an avalanche of personal, direct pleas, in the Massachusetts Senate election of Scott Brown \u2013 the American people have told President Obama to focus administration and congressional activities on jobs and the economy and to start over on \u201chealth care reform.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Time and again, he has refused.\u00a0 Today, he defiantly raised the stakes, not only <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/3888\/white-house-unveils-new-obamacare-proposal\/\" target=\"_blank\">presenting a new version of the old versions<\/a> (with a few pretzel twists) but raising the costs by billions.<\/p>\n<p>In doing so, the President who came into office preaching that dialog could resolve the animosities of the world looks like nothing so much as the current government of Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time and again \u2013 in polls, in protests, in an avalanche of personal, direct pleas, in the Massachusetts Senate election of Scott Brown \u2013 the American people have told President Obama to focus administration and congressional activities on jobs and the economy and to start over on \u201chealth care reform.\u201d Time and again, he has [&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],"class_list":["post-3913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-health-care","tag-president-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3913","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=3913"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3915,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3913\/revisions\/3915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}