{"id":18379,"date":"2010-03-10T19:25:43","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T19:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/david_brooks-the_emotion_of_reform\/"},"modified":"2010-03-10T19:25:43","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T19:25:43","slug":"david_brooks-the_emotion_of_reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=18379","title":{"rendered":"David Brooks&#8211;The Emotion of Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Democrats have not been completely irresponsible. It\u2019s just that as the health fight has gone on, their passion for coverage has swamped their less visceral commitment to reducing debt. The result is a bill that is fundamentally imbalanced.<\/p>\n<p>This past year, we\u2019ve seen how hard it is to even pass legislation that expands benefits. To actually reduce benefits and raise taxes, we\u2019re going to need legislators who wake up in the morning passionate about fiscal sanity. The ones we have now are just making things worse.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/09\/opinion\/09brooks.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Democrats have not been completely irresponsible. It\u2019s just that as the health fight has gone on, their passion for coverage has swamped their less visceral commitment to reducing debt. The result is a bill that is fundamentally imbalanced. This<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=18379\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,513,670,149,104,617,616,151,667,129,618,587,669,584],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-the-2009-american-health-care-reform-debate","category-budget","category-economy","category-health-medicine","category-house-of-representatives","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-psychology","category-senate","category-taxes","category-the-national-deficit","category-the-u-s-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}