{"id":16495,"date":"2014-03-20T12:30:11","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T16:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=16495"},"modified":"2014-03-20T12:30:11","modified_gmt":"2014-03-20T16:30:11","slug":"the-education-of-scott-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2014\/03\/20\/the-education-of-scott-brown\/","title":{"rendered":"The education of Scott Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Rachel Maddow Show<\/em> web page has the article <a title=\"Rachel Maddow website article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\/the-education-scott-brown\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The education of Scott Brown<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Less than two years after losing his re-election bid in his home state, former Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) is apparently trying again, this time running in New Hampshire \u2013 where\u2019s he still learning quite a bit.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not altogether clear why Brown is running in the Granite State, but his strategy has nevertheless taken shape: the Republican intends to hit the campaign trail complaining about the Affordable Care Act. It worked in one state in 2010, Brown figures, so maybe it\u2019ll work in a different state in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>With this in mind, Brown visited with state Rep. Herb Richardson (R-N.H.) and his wife over the weekend at the lawmaker\u2019s home, where the Senate candidate called the ACA a \u201cmonstrosity.\u201d Sam Stein flagged an account of the meeting from the local newspaper<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\nThe state lawmaker added that the health care law, which Brown claims to abhor, has been a \u201cfinancial lifesaver\u201d for his family.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If I didn&#8217;t actually know some people in New Hampshire, I might comment that Scott Brown is Massachusett&#8217;s gift to New Hampshire.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Snidely_Whiplash\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Snidely Whiplash\" src=\"http:\/\/img2.wikia.nocookie.net\/__cb20100613215709\/villains\/images\/c\/cb\/Badman.png\" width=\"249\" height=\"341\" style=\"margin-right:10\" \/><\/a> When I said that, I would have a Snidely Whiplash sort of grin and be twirling my mustache.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rachel Maddow Show web page has the article The education of Scott Brown. Less than two years after losing his re-election bid in his home state, former Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) is apparently trying again, this time running in New Hampshire \u2013 where\u2019s he still learning quite a bit. It\u2019s not altogether clear why [&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-16495","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\/16495","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=16495"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16497,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16495\/revisions\/16497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}