{"id":6865,"date":"2009-10-28T16:24:52","date_gmt":"2009-10-28T16:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/10\/28\/obamas-declaration-of-swine-fl\/"},"modified":"2009-10-28T16:24:52","modified_gmt":"2009-10-28T16:24:52","slug":"obamas-declaration-of-swine-fl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/28\/obamas-declaration-of-swine-fl\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Obama&#8217;s Declaration Of Swine Flu Emergency Prompts Pro-Swine-Flu Republican Response&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>WASHINGTON&#8211;Claiming that the president was preying on the public&#8217;s fear of contracting a fatal disease last week when he declared the H1N1 virus a national emergency, Republican leaders announced Wednesday that they were officially endorsing the swine flu. &#8220;Thousands of Americans&#8211;hardworking ordinary Americans like you and me&#8211;already have H1N1,&#8221; Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele said during a press conference. &#8220;Now Obama wants to take that away from us. Ask yourself: Do you want the federal government making these kinds of health care decisions for you and your family?&#8221; Other prominent Republicans opposing Obama&#8217;s declaration of emergency include Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal, who urged residents of his state to continue not washing their hands, and radio host Rush Limbaugh, who made a point of dying of the virus during his show on Wednesday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/news_briefs\/obamas_declaration_of_swine\">Read the rest here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hat tip: Claudia Sawyer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON&#8211;Claiming that the president was preying on the public&#8217;s fear of contracting a fatal disease last week when he declared the H1N1 virus a national emergency, Republican leaders announced Wednesday that they were officially endorsing the swine flu. &#8220;Thousands of Americans&#8211;hardworking ordinary Americans like you and me&#8211;already have H1N1,&#8221; Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/28\/obamas-declaration-of-swine-fl\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Obama&#8217;s Declaration Of Swine Flu Emergency Prompts Pro-Swine-Flu Republican Response&#8221;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1MJ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6865"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}