{"id":987,"date":"2009-09-30T11:44:35","date_gmt":"2009-09-30T15:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=987"},"modified":"2009-09-30T12:44:16","modified_gmt":"2009-09-30T16:44:16","slug":"florida-congressman-the-latest-to-eat-live-worms-in-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/987\/florida-congressman-the-latest-to-eat-live-worms-in-public\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Congressman the Latest to Eat Live Worms in Public"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s happened again.\u00a0 Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) electrified the House floor last night with one of those <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eW2FgGmkN38\" target=\"_blank\">stunning arguments<\/a> for which Members of Congress are becoming unchallenged public intellectuals.\u00a0 It can be summed up by his visual aid:\u00a0 \u201cThe Republican Health Care Plan:\u00a0 Die Quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wouldn\u2019t the country be better off if Jeff Probst (host of \u201cSurvivor\u201d for those of you who only watch C-Span) were to become House Speaker?\u00a0 He\u2019d introduce better production values, reality-show suspense and, most important in a culture that resists the significant public value \u2013 not to mention entertainment \u2013 of throwing people to lions, weekly banishment from the island.<\/p>\n<p>Properly medicated readers might wish to read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/scorecard\/0909\/Graysons_greatest_hits.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Grayson&#8217;s greatest hits&#8221;<\/a> compiled by Josh Kraushaar at Politico.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s happened again.\u00a0 Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) electrified the House floor last night with one of those stunning arguments for which Members of Congress are becoming unchallenged public intellectuals.\u00a0 It can be summed up by his visual aid:\u00a0 \u201cThe Republican Health Care Plan:\u00a0 Die Quickly.\u201d Wouldn\u2019t the country be better off if Jeff Probst (host [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[217,12],"class_list":["post-987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-alan-grayson","tag-health-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":999,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987\/revisions\/999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}