{"id":6077,"date":"2009-07-31T06:07:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T06:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2009\/07\/dems-narrowly-escape-doing-something-good\/"},"modified":"2015-01-01T14:53:25","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T21:53:25","slug":"dems-narrowly-escape-doing-something-good-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2009\/07\/dems-narrowly-escape-doing-something-good-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Dems Narrowly Escape Doing Something Good"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>That was a close one!  <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20090731\/ap_on_go_co\/us_health_care_overhaul\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">They almost passed an amendment that would have cared about unborn children and not maintained an inflexible commitment to their murder<\/a>.  Thanks to Henry Waxman and a couple of Congressoids who blanched at the thought of elementary justice for defenseless babies, they avoided this near ocassion of virtue and maintained their total committment to the dismemberment of the weakest and most vulnerable among us.<\/p>\n<p>Good to know some things never change.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That was a close one! They almost passed an amendment that would have cared about unborn children and not maintained an inflexible commitment to their murder. Thanks to Henry Waxman and a couple of Congressoids who blanched at the thought of elementary justice for defenseless babies, they avoided this near ocassion of virtue and maintained [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Dems Narrowly Escape Doing Something Good<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"That was a close one! 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