{"id":1942,"date":"2005-02-11T18:19:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-11T18:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1942"},"modified":"2018-07-19T06:41:45","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T11:41:45","slug":"1942","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/11\/1942\/","title":{"rendered":"Now He Finds The Veto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/washington\/2005-02-11-bush-drugs_x.htm\" target=\"_new\">Bush threatens to veto Medicare changes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>President Bush on Friday threatened to veto any changes Congress tries to make to Medicare&#8217;s new prescription drug benefit, which takes effect in January 2006.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I signed Medicare reform proudly and any attempt to limit the choices of our seniors and to take away their prescription drug coverage under Medicare will meet my veto,&#8221; Bush said at a swearing-in ceremony for Mike O. Leavitt, the new secretary of Health and Human Services.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, I voted for him.  So now he threatens to veto any attempt to rein in the profligate spending-to-buy-votes.  As his first veto in five years in office.<\/p>\n<p>With great power comes great irresponsibility, perhaps, but at least he&#8217;s not as bad as the other guy would have been, and his foreign policy will allow us to live in a world safer than the alternatives so we can enjoy a future of financial collapse.  But man, sometimes I have to work at convincing myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bush threatens to veto Medicare changes: President Bush on Friday threatened to veto any changes Congress tries to make to Medicare&#8217;s new prescription drug benefit, which takes effect in January 2006. &#8220;I signed Medicare reform proudly and any attempt to limit the choices of our seniors and to take away their prescription drug coverage under [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20580,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942\/revisions\/20580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}