{"id":12135,"date":"2009-12-20T16:17:05","date_gmt":"2009-12-20T21:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=12135"},"modified":"2009-12-20T16:17:05","modified_gmt":"2009-12-20T21:17:05","slug":"practising-the-art-of-compromise-or-defending-self-interests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=12135","title":{"rendered":"Practising the art of compromise or defending self-interests?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A.) Vegans who charge the barricades in defense of abortion.<\/p>\n<p>B.) Politicians who flip flop on Bernanke:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Republicans and Democrats Swap Views on Bernanke<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/117700\/republicans-democrats-swap-views-bernanke.aspx\">by Lydia Saad<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>PRINCETON, NJ &#8212; Despite Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke&#8217;s solid roots in the Bush administration, new Gallup polling finds 64% of Democrats nationwide feeling confident in Bernanke&#8217;s input on the economy, compared with only 36% of Republicans. This is a complete reversal of the Fed chairman&#8217;s image among partisans a year ago, under President Bush, when Republicans had the greater confidence in Bernanke, 61% vs. 40%.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/117700\/republicans-democrats-swap-views-bernanke.aspx\">Read the report<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>C.) Progressives who defend Obama &#038; the Democrats:<\/p>\n<p><strong>WASHINGTON (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.borowitzreport.com\/index.aspx\">The Borowitz Report<\/a>)<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) &#8211; The United States Senate today unveiled details of its health care plan, tentatively called CompromiseCare<sup>TM<\/sup>:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Under CompromiseCare<sup>TM<\/sup>, people with no coverage will be allowed to keep their current plan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Medicare will be extended to 55-year-olds as soon as they turn 65.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; You will have access to cheap Canadian drugs if you live in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; States whose names contain vowels will be allowed to opt out of the plan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; You get to choose which doctor you cannot afford to see.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; You will not have to be pre-certified to qualify for cremation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; A patient will be considered &#8220;pre-existing&#8221; if he or she already exists.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; You&#8217;ll be free to choose between medications and heating fuel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Patients can access quality health care if they can prove their name is &#8220;Lieberman.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; You will have access to natural remedies, such as death<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A.) Vegans who charge the barricades in defense of abortion. B.) Politicians who flip flop on Bernanke: Republicans and Democrats Swap Views on Bernanke by Lydia Saad PRINCETON, NJ &#8212; Despite Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke&#8217;s solid roots in the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=12135\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-39J","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12135"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12150,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12135\/revisions\/12150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}