{"id":7011,"date":"2014-07-24T08:03:20","date_gmt":"2014-07-24T14:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=7011"},"modified":"2014-07-24T08:03:20","modified_gmt":"2014-07-24T14:03:20","slug":"conservatives-and-republicans-have-constructed-a-separate-and-impenetrable-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/conservatives-and-republicans-have-constructed-a-separate-and-impenetrable-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"&ldquo;Conservatives and Republicans have constructed a separate and impenetrable &lsquo;reality&rsquo;&rdquo;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2014\/07\/24\/the_rights_anti_healthcare_jubilee_why_they_cant_quit_the_obamacare_obsession\/\">The right\u2019s anti-healthcare jubilee! Why they can\u2019t quit the Obamacare obsession &#8211; Salon.com<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/writer\/simon_maloy\/\">Simon Maloy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Conservatives&#8217; gloating over Halbig reveals why the right&#8217;s insular, fact-resistant world is so dangerous  <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The unseemly side to all this celebrating is the fact that these conservatives are, in effect, throwing a party over a judicial ruling that would strip millions of people of their health coverage. <strong><font style=\"background-color: #ffc000\">\u201cThe next time Republicans are wondering why so many people think their party is cruel and uncaring and will gladly crush the lives of ordinary people if it means gaining some momentary partisan advantage, they might think back to this case,\u201d<\/font><\/strong> wrote Paul Waldman in the <a href=\"http:\/\/prospect.org\/article\/health-insurance-millions-threatened-republicans-celebrate\">American Prospect<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>Conservatives, obviously, wouldn\u2019t see it that way, even though the policy ramifications are clear. In that way, <em>Halbig<\/em> has offered a stark reminder of just how vast the differences between the two sides in the Obamacare fight are. It\u2019s not just a simple matter of policy disagreement \u2013 <strong><font style=\"background-color: #ffc000\">conservatives and Republicans have constructed a separate and impenetrable reality<\/font><\/strong> in which the Affordable Care Act is a catastrophic failure that has not provided a single measurable benefit.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2014\/07\/24\/the_rights_anti_healthcare_jubilee_why_they_cant_quit_the_obamacare_obsession\/\">The right\u2019s anti-healthcare jubilee! Why they can\u2019t quit the Obamacare obsession &#8211; Salon.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The right\u2019s anti-healthcare jubilee! Why they can\u2019t quit the Obamacare obsession &#8211; Salon.com by Simon Maloy Conservatives&#8217; gloating over Halbig reveals why the right&#8217;s insular, fact-resistant world is so dangerous The unseemly side to all this celebrating is the fact that these conservatives are, in effect, throwing a party over a judicial ruling that would &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/conservatives-and-republicans-have-constructed-a-separate-and-impenetrable-reality\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&ldquo;Conservatives and Republicans have constructed a separate and impenetrable &lsquo;reality&rsquo;&rdquo;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election","category-nada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7011","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=7011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7012,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7011\/revisions\/7012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}