{"id":9950,"date":"2009-08-29T01:07:08","date_gmt":"2009-08-29T01:07:08","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-08-29T01:07:08","modified_gmt":"2009-08-29T01:07:08","slug":"using-stark-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/08\/29\/using-stark-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Stark Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leave it to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/glennthrush\/0809\/Pete_Stark_Dem_moderates_brain_dead.html?showall\">Pete Stark<\/a> (CA-13) to tell it exactly like it is.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Moderate Blue Dog Democrats &#8221;just want to cause trouble,&#8221; said Rep. Pete Stark, D-Calif., who heads the health subcommittee on the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;They&#8217;re for the most part, I hate to say, brain dead, but they&#8217;re just looking to raise money from insurance companies and promote a right-wing agenda that is not really very useful in this whole process,&#8221; Stark told reporters on a conference call.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Most of the legislative process involves posturing. &nbsp;The Blue Dogs want something for their districts, liberals want to represent their constituents, et cetera. &nbsp;When someone like Stark cuts through the posturing and lays out its <em>consequences<\/em>, it&#8217;s quite revealing. &nbsp;He&#8217;s one of the few people who can say this. &nbsp;He also in the same interview called co-ops <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2009\/08\/27\/pete-stark-co-ops-the-equ_n_270412.html\">the equivalent of a &#8220;medical unicorn&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leave it to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/glennthrush\/0809\/Pete_Stark_Dem_moderates_brain_dead.html?showall\">Pete Stark<\/a> (CA-13) to tell it exactly like it is.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Moderate Blue Dog Democrats &#8221;just want to cause trouble,&#8221; said Rep. Pete Stark, D-Calif., who heads the health subcommittee on the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;They&#8217;re for the most part, I hate to say, brain dead, but they&#8217;re just looking to raise money from insurance companies and promote a right-wing agenda that is not really very useful in this whole process,&#8221; Stark told reporters on a conference call.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Most of the legislative process involves posturing. &nbsp;The Blue Dogs want something for their districts, liberals want to represent their constituents, et cetera. &nbsp;When someone like Stark cuts through the posturing and lays out its <em>consequences<\/em>, it&#8217;s quite revealing. &nbsp;He&#8217;s one of the few people who can say this. &nbsp;He also in the same interview called co-ops <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2009\/08\/27\/pete-stark-co-ops-the-equ_n_270412.html\">the equivalent of a &#8220;medical unicorn&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"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":[22],"tags":[6890,1475],"class_list":["post-9950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-22","tag-6890","tag-1475"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2Au","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}