{"id":2822,"date":"2009-08-21T11:16:28","date_gmt":"2009-08-21T17:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/grand-one-note-party\/"},"modified":"2009-08-21T11:16:28","modified_gmt":"2009-08-21T17:16:28","slug":"grand-one-note-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/grand-one-note-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Grand One-note Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sound familiar?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWrite those letters now. Call your friends, and tell them to write them. If you don\u2019t, this program I promise you will pass just as surely as the sun will come up tomorrow. And behind it will come other federal programs that will invade every area of freedom as we have known it in this country, until, one day\u2026 we will awake to find that we have socialism. And if you don\u2019t do this, and if I don\u2019t do it, one of these days, you and I are going to spend our sunset years telling our children, and our children\u2019s children, what it once was like in America when men were free.\u201d \u2013 Ronnie Raygun railing against Medicare to the AMA in <strong>1961<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/haussamen.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/reagans-great-medicare-blunder.html\">Heath Haussamen on New Mexico Politics: Reagan\u2019s great Medicare blunder<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So, how many Americans wish the GOP had defeated Medicare?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sound familiar? \u201cWrite those letters now. Call your friends, and tell them to write them. If you don\u2019t, this program I promise you will pass just as surely as the sun will come up tomorrow. And behind it will come other federal programs that will invade every area of freedom as we have known it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/grand-one-note-party\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Grand One-note Party<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}