{"id":4040,"date":"2010-03-01T17:45:29","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T22:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=4040"},"modified":"2010-03-01T17:45:52","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T22:45:52","slug":"pelosi-gives-self-an-a-for-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/4040\/pelosi-gives-self-an-a-for-effort\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelosi Gives Self &#8220;An &#8216;A&#8217; For Effort&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, this isn\u2019t too surprising.\u00a0 When asked by a reporter to grade herself on the past year\u2019s performance, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi responded that <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/84089-pelosi-gop-has-had-its-day-217-healthcare-votes-in-sight \" target=\"_blank\">she\u2019d give herself \u201can \u2018A\u2019 for effort.\u201d<\/a> No doubt the mother of five is the kind of helicopter parent demanding trophies for participation, and praise for people who deign to show up.\u00a0 But if you can get an \u2018A\u2019 just for trying, what grade will the Speaker bestow on herself when and if the Democrats in Congress actually pass the health care \u201creform\u201d bill?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, this isn\u2019t too surprising.\u00a0 When asked by a reporter to grade herself on the past year\u2019s performance, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi responded that she\u2019d give herself \u201can \u2018A\u2019 for effort.\u201d No doubt the mother of five is the kind of helicopter parent demanding trophies for participation, and praise for people who deign to show [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[84,506,465,111],"class_list":["post-4040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-congress","tag-democrats","tag-health-care-reform","tag-nancy-pelosi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4040","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4040"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4046,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4040\/revisions\/4046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}