{"id":5734,"date":"2010-03-19T16:35:31","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T21:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=5734"},"modified":"2010-03-19T16:35:31","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T21:35:31","slug":"luckovich-nails-the-healthcare-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/19\/luckovich-nails-the-healthcare-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Luckovich Nails The Healthcare Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mike Luckovich’s cartoon from March 10<\/a> nails the health care crisis in Congress:<\/p>\n

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Given that this cartoon was reprinted this morning in the Springfield News-Leader<\/em> only two pages before the story entitled Runaway Prius tale in doubt<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Investigators with Toyota Motor Corp. and the federal government could not replicate the runaway speeding reported by a Prius owner who said his car’s accelerator stuck as he drove on a California freeway, according to a memo for a congressional panel.<\/p>\n

The memo, obtained Saturday by The Associated Press, said the experts who examined and test drove the car could not replicate the sudden, unintended acceleration James Sikes said he encountered. A backup mechanism that shuts off the engine when the brake and gas pedals are floored also worked properly during tests.<\/p>\n

Sikes, 61, called 911 on March 8 to report losing control of his 2008 Prius as the hybrid reached speeds of 94 mph. A California Highway Patrol officer helped Sikes bring the vehicle to a safe stop on Interstate 8 near San Diego.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

One would have to assume, then, that Luckovich’s metaphor is that Congress has made a stunt of a crisis for its own gain, would one not? Because that’s spot on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mike Luckovich’s cartoon from March 10 nails the health care crisis in Congress: Click for full size Given that this cartoon was reprinted this morning in the Springfield News-Leader only two pages before the story entitled Runaway Prius tale in doubt: Investigators with Toyota Motor Corp. and the federal government could not replicate the runaway […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-overreach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5734","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=5734"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5737,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5734\/revisions\/5737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}