{"id":343,"date":"2010-07-01T20:23:29","date_gmt":"2010-07-02T01:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/?p=343"},"modified":"2010-07-01T20:27:42","modified_gmt":"2010-07-02T01:27:42","slug":"how-you-like-me-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/?p=343","title":{"rendered":"How You Like Me Now?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What I promised you:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/change.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-344\" title=\"change\" src=\"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/change.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"89\" height=\"139\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"0\" height=\"8\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>But\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Cronyism\u2026 intact<\/p>\n<p>Wall Street payoffs\u2026 still being paid in full<\/p>\n<p>Big Oil running the show\u2026 the show must go on (now with manslaughter and animal cruelty!)<\/p>\n<p>The war in Iraq\u2026 still fighting<\/p>\n<p>Warrantless wiretapping\u2026 still tap dancing away<\/p>\n<p>Transparency\u2026 opaque<\/p>\n<p>Blackwater getting government work\u2026 no unemployment there<\/p>\n<p>Unemployment capped at 8 percent&#8230; no I meant 9 percent&#8230; no make that 10, yeah 10 percent<\/p>\n<p>Bipartisanship\u2026 let\u2019s just say that idea\u2019s been split down both sides<\/p>\n<p>Universal health care\u2026 look, I did get this one through!\u00a0 So what if in turn its passage convinced large corporations to completely drop health care for their employees in favor of paying nominal fines?\u00a0 So what if insurance premiums for individuals went up by 20 percent?<\/p>\n<p>So, America\u2026 how you like me now?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/no_change.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-345\" title=\"no_change\" src=\"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/no_change.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"118\" height=\"116\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"0\" height=\"18\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What I promised you: But\u2026 Cronyism\u2026 intact Wall Street payoffs\u2026 still being paid in full Big Oil running the show\u2026 the show must go on (now with manslaughter and animal cruelty!) The war in Iraq\u2026 still fighting Warrantless wiretapping\u2026 still tap dancing away Transparency\u2026 opaque Blackwater getting government work\u2026 no unemployment there Unemployment capped at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":347,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions\/347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}