{"id":2424,"date":"2010-01-19T13:11:16","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T17:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=2424"},"modified":"2010-01-19T15:05:03","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T19:05:03","slug":"qotd-time-to-panic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/01\/19\/qotd-time-to-panic\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Time to panic"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Jonathan Cohn headlines his latest plea to ignore a Brown win and pass health care anyway &#8220;Pelosi Isn&#8217;t Panicking. Her Party Should Listen.&#8221;  Umm, call me cynical, but maybe the reason Pelosi isn&#8217;t panicking is that Pelosi&#8217;s got one of the safest seats in the country?  I mean, take this for what it&#8217;s worth but if Brown wins today, my advice to Blanche Lincoln, and Ben Nelson, and  their counterparts in the house?  <em>You should panic.  They&#8217;re coming for you next.<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>Hell, If I were Blanche Lincoln, anyone in the leadership who wanted to get me to the floor for a health care vote would have to pry me out of the darkened room where they&#8217;d find me huddled in the corner, rocking back and forth and crying.  Maybe Cohn&#8217;s right and the thing&#8217;s too far gone to save, so you might as well vote for it anyway.  But that&#8217;s not exactly <em>soothing<\/em>, is it?<\/p>\n<p>Megan McArdle, <a href=\"http:\/\/meganmcardle.theatlantic.com\/archives\/2010\/01\/time_to_panic_1.php\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Time to Panic&#8221;, <em>Asymmetrical Information<\/em><\/a>, 2010-01-19<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Cohn headlines his latest plea to ignore a Brown win and pass health care anyway &#8220;Pelosi Isn&#8217;t Panicking. Her Party Should Listen.&#8221; Umm, call me cynical, but maybe the reason Pelosi isn&#8217;t panicking is that Pelosi&#8217;s got one of the safest seats in the country? I mean, take this for what it&#8217;s worth but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,41,13],"tags":[188,472],"class_list":["post-2424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-electionwatch","tag-massachusetts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-D6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2425,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2424\/revisions\/2425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}