{"id":1491,"date":"2009-08-24T19:09:08","date_gmt":"2009-08-25T01:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davintosh.com\/?p=1491"},"modified":"2009-08-24T19:09:08","modified_gmt":"2009-08-25T01:09:08","slug":"amateur-hour-at-the-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/2009\/08\/24\/amateur-hour-at-the-white-house\/politics\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Amateur Hour At The White House&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love that title. I borrowed it from a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/horseraceblog\/2009\/08\/amateur_hour_at_the_white_hous_1.html\">RealClearPolitics article<\/a> on the blunder that is the push to reform the healthcare system, which is an excellent read. Not that it&#8217;s hard to find Amateur Hour at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. these days; just about any time of any given day will do.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/horseraceblog\/2009\/08\/amateur_hour_at_the_white_hous_1.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/horseraceblog\/Leaders%2520Versus%2520Marginals.jpg?resize=450%2C230\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"450\" height=\"230\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The article describes how Obama has flubbed this deal; he tasked the Democrat &#8216;leadership&#8217; &mdash; dominated by &#8220;coastal liberals&#8221; &mdash; with writing the bill. They wrote what they would like to see in such a bill, but didn&#8217;t think to consult their slightly less liberal fellow Dems while doing it, and now everybody in the White House seems surprised at the current dustup going on over the &#8220;Public Option&#8221;. The author, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/horseraceblog\/2007\/05\/about_the_author.html\">Jay Cost<\/a>, explains it much better than I ever could, so check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/horseraceblog\/2009\/08\/amateur_hour_at_the_white_hous_1.html\">the real deal.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He ends the article with&#8230; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s almost as if the President has absolutely no experience in dealing with the United States Congress whatsoever. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230; Gee; do ya think? I&#8217;ve been arguing that since Sarah Palin came on the scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love that title. I borrowed it from a RealClearPolitics article on the blunder that is the push to reform the healthcare system, which is an excellent read. Not that it&#8217;s hard to find Amateur Hour at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. these days; just about any time of any given day will do. The article describes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[241,242,243,111],"class_list":["post-1491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-amateur-hour","tag-healthcare-reform","tag-horserace-blog","tag-obama"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}