{"id":3368,"date":"2013-09-19T22:41:02","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T02:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=3368"},"modified":"2014-06-02T15:18:50","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T19:18:50","slug":"gop-congressman-pushes-for-obamacare-repeal-this-is-not-a-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2013\/09\/gop-congressman-pushes-for-obamacare-repeal-this-is-not-a-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Congressman Pushes For Obamacare Repeal: “This is not a Democracy”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Doug Collins, representative from Georgia came on Politics Nation and it was no surprise when he started spouting the typical one-sided nonsense about how they weren’t shutting down the government and were in fact funding the government – as long as it didn’t include the affordable care act. Nothing shocking there, but what may have raised a few eyebrows was when he said that the United States is not a democracy.<\/p>\n

It’s one thing to be an ideologue. It’s another to be a complete idiot.<\/p>\n

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Doug Collins, representative from Georgia came on Politics Nation and it was no surprise when he started spouting the typical one-sided nonsense about how they weren’t shutting down the government and were in fact funding the government – as long as it didn’t include the affordable care act. Nothing shocking there, but what may have…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,5,22],"tags":[125,24,672],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3368"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3368"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3470,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3368\/revisions\/3470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}