{"id":14186,"date":"2013-08-25T22:19:29","date_gmt":"2013-08-26T02:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=14186"},"modified":"2013-08-25T22:21:05","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T02:21:05","slug":"ky-gov-praise-of-obamacare-leaves-mcconnell-rand-dumbfounded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2013\/08\/25\/ky-gov-praise-of-obamacare-leaves-mcconnell-rand-dumbfounded\/","title":{"rendered":"KY Gov Praise of Obamacare Leaves McConnell, Rand Dumbfounded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Crooks and Liars<\/em> has the article <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/nicole-belle\/ky-gov-praise-obamacare-leaves-mcconn\" title=\"Crooks and Liars article\" target=\"_blank\">KY Gov Praise of Obamacare Leaves McConnell, Rand Dumbfounded<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nSpeaking to a crowd of Kentucky voters at a fundraising breakfast, Beshear took the opportunity to praise the Affordable Care Act (also known as Obamacare) to the overwhelming support of the audience and take subtle jabs at those who were opposing Obamacare, which include <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.politicususa.com\/2013\/08\/23\/isnt-2010-dem-gov-kentucky-unloads-powerful-defense-obamacare.html\">Senators Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul who were also attending<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Republican Senators Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul, also attending, weren\u2019t expecting the onslaught. Jill Lawrence reported, \u201cIt was not  what anyone expected\u2014least of all Republican Sens. Mitch McConnell and  Rand Paul, who sat stone-faced onstage with Beshear as he unloaded on  them without using names.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>Beshear finished with a stab to the heart of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politicususa.com\/2013\/08\/22\/republicans-economy-leverage-point-obamacare.html\"><strong>GOP\u2019s NoCare, no alternative<\/strong><\/a>.  \u201cIt\u2019s amazing to me how people who are pouring time and money and  energy into trying to repeal the Affordable Care Act sure haven\u2019t put  that kind of energy into trying to improve the health of Kentuckians,\u201d  according to the <strong><a target=\"_blank\"href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaljournal.com\/daily\/obamacare-showdown-over-a-ham-breakfast-in-kentucky-20130822%20\">National Journal<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>I more Democrats got out there and spoke up, the Presiden wouldn&#8217;t have to be the only one trying to get the truth out.<\/p>\n<p>I noticed today that on the NBC news, while we have a Democrat as President and the Senate majority is Democratic, the foreign policy experts they had on telling us how our government should and would behave in Syria were Republicans.<br \/>\nFor a left leaning media, they sure give Republicans more coverage than they deserve.  Senator Corker of Tennessee isn&#8217;t even noted for his foreign policy expertise and NBC was reporting on his appearance on Faux Noise.  Surely the head of the Senate Foreign Relations committee, a Democrat, could have been featured on one of the three real networks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crooks and Liars has the article KY Gov Praise of Obamacare Leaves McConnell, Rand Dumbfounded. Speaking to a crowd of Kentucky voters at a fundraising breakfast, Beshear took the opportunity to praise the Affordable Care Act (also known as Obamacare) to the overwhelming support of the audience and take subtle jabs at those who were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14186","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14186"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14188,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14186\/revisions\/14188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}