{"id":697065,"date":"2010-03-21T10:33:32","date_gmt":"2010-03-21T14:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10003524"},"modified":"2010-03-21T10:51:52","modified_gmt":"2010-03-21T14:51:52","slug":"this-is-how-you-debate-health-care-reform-brooklyn-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/697065","title":{"rendered":"This Is How You Debate Health Care Reform, Brooklyn Style!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/03\/weiner-thumb-165x153-38405.jpg?w=780\">         <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Republican Party is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the insurance industry.&#8221; So said Rep. Anthony Weiner of Brooklyn last month in front of Congress. As we move towards a historic vote on health care reform, let&#8217;s take a moment to throw some gas on the fire and revisit some of the awesomely incendiary rhetoric of this statesman on revamping our health care system. Now this a healthy health care debate!<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/BOQ2GEGm3v0&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Weiner stands up in front of Congress and calls the Republican party a wholly-owned subsidiary of the insurance industry. He is penalized for his remarks by a procedural rule, and is allowed to withdraw and revise them. He does so, and clarifies that <em>every<\/em> Republican is working for the insurance industry.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/XPI0Ty57VTA&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p><strong>Weiner vs Fox n Friends<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fox n Friends can&#8217;t keep a good debater down.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/5tUmUk-jLDo&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p><strong>Weiner Leaves Joe Scarborough Flummoxed<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Weiner asks Scarborough several times what exactly health insurance companies are bringing to the table and he is incapable of responding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Republican Party is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the insurance industry.&#8221; So said Rep. Anthony Weiner of Brooklyn last month in front of Congress. As we move towards a historic vote on health care reform, let&#8217;s take a moment to throw some gas on the fire and revisit some of the awesomely incendiary rhetoric of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3568,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-697065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2VkZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3568"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}