{"id":1653,"date":"2010-02-26T20:18:49","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T20:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1653"},"modified":"2010-02-26T20:18:49","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T20:18:49","slug":"while_we_were_watching_the_hea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1653","title":{"rendered":"While We Were Watching The Healthcare Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Hinderaker at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2010\/02\/025690.php\">Power Line<\/a>&nbsp;posted an article yesterday about a Democrat party attempt to tie the hands of our intelligence professionals.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>According to the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><em>&#8220;The Democrats attempted to subject anyone who interrogates a terrorist in a less than gentle manner&#8211;for example, by &#8220;exploiting the phobias of the individual,&#8221; which refers to the notorious caterpillar in the cell&#8211;to 15 years&#8217; imprisonment. As usual, <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/corner.nationalreview.com\/post\/?q=NDVhNWUzMjJkMjY1OWMyYmExMjRkMDc0NTJjMDk3Zjg=\"><strong><font color=\"#4b61a7\"><em>Andy McCarthy<\/em><\/font><\/strong><\/a><em> blows the whistle on the Democrats&#8217; perfidy.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Fortunately, someone read the bill they were voting on and this provision was not passed.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Pete Hoekstra is quoted in the article as saying:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><em>&#8220;That Democrats would try to bury this provision deep in the bill, late at night, when they thought everyone&#8217;s attention would be focused on the health care summit is a testament to the shameful nature of what they were attempting.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Republicans brought this to the attention of the American people, who were rightly outraged that Democrats would try to target those we ask to serve in harm&#8217;s way and with a unified push we were successful in getting them to pull the bill.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">It is unfortunate that defending our country has become so political.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Hinderaker at Power Line&nbsp;posted an article yesterday about a Democrat party attempt to tie the hands of our intelligence professionals.&nbsp; According to the article: &#8220;The Democrats attempted to subject anyone who interrogates a terrorist in a less than gentle &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1653\">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-1653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653","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=1653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}