{"id":962,"date":"2013-09-28T17:25:02","date_gmt":"2013-09-28T22:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/?p=962"},"modified":"2013-09-28T17:29:58","modified_gmt":"2013-09-28T22:29:58","slug":"bravely-tilting-at-windmills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/bravely-tilting-at-windmills\/","title":{"rendered":"Bravely tilting at windmills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s hardly much more to be said about the all-too-likely government shutdown, or the possibility of an even more terrifying default on our debt obligations. But even so, I firmly believe it\u2019s a good idea to repeat this as often as possible so everybody understands it: Republicans in Congress are drawing their line in the sand, throwing thousands of government works temporarily out of work and threatening the entire world economy, not over a fiendish Democratic plan to confiscate all guns in the country, or to raise income tax rates to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Historical_Mariginal_Tax_Rate_for_Highest_and_Lowest_Income_Earners.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">where they were in the 1960s<\/a>, or to get involved in another costly war, or even a plan by President Obama to become dictator for life. No, they are fighting to the death over a plan to give poor people better access to health insurance.<\/p>\n<p>And they are using the words of real heroes <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/politics\/2013\/09\/28\/2696931\/gop-congressman-compares-republicans-trying-take-down-obamacare-to-heroic-passengers-who-took-down-terrorists-on-911\/\" target=\"_blank\">in the most offensive way possible<\/a> to do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s hardly much more to be said about the all-too-likely government shutdown, or the possibility of an even more terrifying default on our debt obligations. But even so, I firmly believe it\u2019s a good idea to repeat this as often as possible so everybody understands it: Republicans in Congress are drawing their line in the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/bravely-tilting-at-windmills\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bravely tilting at windmills<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[12,77],"class_list":["post-962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-congress","tag-health-care","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=962"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":964,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962\/revisions\/964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}