{"id":11751,"date":"2010-03-22T09:57:17","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T09:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/03\/22\/now-the-battle-begins-in-dead-earnest\/"},"modified":"2010-03-22T09:57:17","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T09:57:17","slug":"now-the-battle-begins-in-dead-earnest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/03\/22\/now-the-battle-begins-in-dead-earnest\/","title":{"rendered":"Now the Battle Begins in Dead Earnest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Speaker Pelosi really outdid herself last night in point of mendacity.&#0160; She&#0160;referred to&#0160;the opening sentence of the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence: &quot;We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness . . .&quot;&#0160; She then tried to link yesterday&#39;s successful leftist takeover of the health care system to the principles and values of this great document, suggesting that there is a right to health care.&#0160;&#0160;How&#39;s that for chutzpah? &#0160;What is despicable about her and her ilk is their mendacity: they know full well that their welfare state principles are radically at odds with the founders&#39; conception of limited government, but they refuse to state clearly to the American people what they stand for.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">But it ain&#39;t over til it&#39;s over and these lying leftists will have hell to pay.&#0160; The battle is just beginning.&#0160; Some commentary:&#0160; <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/pajamasmedia.com\/victordavishanson\/weve-crossed-the-rubicom\/?singlepage=true\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Victor Davis Hanson<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Georgia\">, <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanevents.com\/article.php?id=36142\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Newt Gingrich<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Georgia\">, <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/blogs-and-stories\/2010-03-21\/the-price-of-victory\/?cid=hp:beastoriginalsL1\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Varadarajan<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Georgia\">, <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/realclearpolitics.blogs.time.com\/2010\/03\/22\/an-historic-vote-in-more-ways-than-one\/\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Trende.<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Pelosi really outdid herself last night in point of mendacity.&#0160; She&#0160;referred to&#0160;the opening sentence of the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence: &quot;We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/03\/22\/now-the-battle-begins-in-dead-earnest\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Now the Battle Begins in Dead Earnest&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}