{"id":1513,"date":"2010-01-11T09:18:45","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T09:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1513"},"modified":"2010-01-11T09:18:45","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T09:18:45","slug":"what_is_happening_in_massachus_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1513","title":{"rendered":"What Is Happening In Massachusetts?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/columns\/A-Massachusetts-Miracle_-8746772-81097297.html\">Washington Examiner<\/a>&nbsp;posted an article by Hugh Hewitt about the Massachusetts special election to be held on January 19th.&nbsp; Hugh Hewitt points out that in any other year, Martha Coakley, the Democrat candidate, would be ahead by thirty points.&nbsp; The polls are all over the place&#8211;some polls have Scott Brown ahead by one point and other polls have Martha Coakley ahead by as much as fifteen points.&nbsp; It will be an interesting election.<\/p>\n<p>The election is about healthcare.&nbsp; Massachusetts has universal healthcare.&nbsp; All the taxes and federal control of healthcare included in the proposed federal healthcare bill will only be a negative for Massachusetts.&nbsp; The voters are beginning to realize that voting for Scott Brown might be a positive for the state&#8211;he would&nbsp;be the vote to stop healthcare. &nbsp;If elected, Scott Brown would serve the remainder of Ted Kennedy&#8217;s term, and an election will be held in 2012 to fill the seat for six years.<\/p>\n<p>The election of Scott&nbsp;Brown is the only way to stop Obamacare.&nbsp; Our Congressmen and Congresswomen have chosen to ignore the calls and emails they have received telling them to vote against the healthcare legislation as it stands.&nbsp; A victory for Scott Brown would force a bipartisan effort on healthcare that might actually result in real reform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Washington Examiner&nbsp;posted an article by Hugh Hewitt about the Massachusetts special election to be held on January 19th.&nbsp; Hugh Hewitt points out that in any other year, Martha Coakley, the Democrat candidate, would be ahead by thirty points.&nbsp; The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1513\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}