{"id":19781,"date":"2014-01-14T19:16:23","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T19:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=19781"},"modified":"2014-01-14T20:41:02","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T20:41:02","slug":"least-interesting-setup-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=19781","title":{"rendered":"Least Chance Of Surprise, Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/2014\/01\/13\/3529615\/nc-republican-leaders-form-legislative.html#storylink=cpy\n\">A pair of North Carolina Republican leaders<\/a>, including a U.S. Senate candidate, have formed a legislative committee to investigate the affect of the Affordable Care Act on the state\u2019s economy and residents.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement by Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger and House Speaker Thom Tillis sets the tone for the planned investigation laden with politics. The notice specifically mentioned investigating market disruptions, canceled insurance policies and higher premiums.<\/p>\n<p>Tillis is waging a U.S. Senate campaign against Democratic incumbent Kay Hagan and making Obamacare the centerpiece of his attacks against Hagan, who voted for the controversial law.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Golly, I can't wait to read what kind of surprising things they'll have in their final report! Hurry, fellas, the suspense is killing me! If I had to guess, I'd say it will be full of praise for the ACA and won't recommend scrapping the whole thing in favor of some vaguely-defined bunch of right-wing hokum. Am I right? Am I?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pair of North Carolina Republican leaders, including a U.S. Senate candidate, have formed a legislative committee to investigate the affect of the Affordable Care Act on the state\u2019s economy and residents. The announcement by Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger and House Speaker Thom Tillis sets the tone for the planned investigation laden with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19781"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19789,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19781\/revisions\/19789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}