{"id":4430,"date":"2010-03-25T15:28:36","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T20:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=4430"},"modified":"2010-03-26T08:16:21","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T13:16:21","slug":"thomas-friedman-declares-mission-accomplished-on-healthcare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/4430\/thomas-friedman-declares-mission-accomplished-on-healthcare\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Friedman Declares &#8220;Mission Accomplished&#8221; on Healthcare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Isn\u2019t comprehensive legislation wonderful?\u00a0 With the stroke of several pens this week, 30 million Americans now have health care!\u00a0 <em>Right<\/em> now.\u00a0 Check out liberals&#8217; columnist of record, Thomas Friedman, who <a href=\" http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/24\/opinion\/24friedman.html?ref=opinion \" target=\"_blank\">exhilaratingly proclaims<\/a> that \u201ccovering so many uninsured Americans is a historic achievement.\u201d\u00a0 All that\u2019s missing is a \u201cMission Accomplished\u201d banner draped across the Mayo Clinic.<\/p>\n<p>Except that none of the 30 million <em>under<\/em>-insured Americans has Obamacare health insurance today.\u00a0 Those on the left love to distort the 2003 &#8220;Mission Accomplished&#8221; banner on the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln, which celebrated its crew&#8217;s successful deployment, as some sort of premature statement by President Bush that the Iraq campaign was concluded.\u00a0 In this instance, however, Friedman may truly be celebrating a &#8220;mission accomplished&#8221; before his professed objective was, well, accomplished.\u00a0 So-called &#8220;progressives&#8221; may be celebrating, but not for anything more than making a law.\u00a0 That\u2019s a result, not an achievement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isn\u2019t comprehensive legislation wonderful?\u00a0 With the stroke of several pens this week, 30 million Americans now have health care!\u00a0 Right now.\u00a0 Check out liberals&#8217; columnist of record, Thomas Friedman, who exhilaratingly proclaims that \u201ccovering so many uninsured Americans is a historic achievement.\u201d\u00a0 All that\u2019s missing is a \u201cMission Accomplished\u201d banner draped across the Mayo Clinic. [&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":[491,1003,35,1002],"class_list":["post-4430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-george-w-bush","tag-iraq-war","tag-obamacare","tag-thomas-friedman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4430","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=4430"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4443,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4430\/revisions\/4443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}