{"id":2024,"date":"2010-03-13T10:43:19","date_gmt":"2010-03-13T17:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=2024"},"modified":"2010-03-13T10:43:19","modified_gmt":"2010-03-13T17:43:19","slug":"to-rep-gutierrez-d-il-you-dont-get-to-skip-hard-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2010\/03\/13\/to-rep-gutierrez-d-il-you-dont-get-to-skip-hard-decisions\/","title":{"rendered":"To Rep. Gutierrez (D-IL): you don&#8217;t get to skip hard decisions."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: And he won&#8217;t. He&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/archives\/2010\/03\/our_readers_were_on_it.php\">voting<\/a> &#8220;yes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Congressman <a href=\"http:\/\/luisgutierrez.house.gov\/\">Luis Gutierrez<\/a> may think he&#8217;s doing the right thing by revoking his support for health care reform because it excludes undocumented immigrants. He&#8217;s wrong. Not just politically, but morally. <\/p>\n<p>The choice available to him is not between helping 30 million or 40 million people. It&#8217;s between helping 30 million people or no one at all. <\/p>\n<p>A politician who refuses to seek the greater good is like a doctor who strives to do no harm by refusing to treat the sickest patients.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update: And he won&#8217;t. He&#8217;s voting &#8220;yes.&#8221; U.S. Congressman Luis Gutierrez may think he&#8217;s doing the right thing by revoking his support for health care reform because it excludes undocumented immigrants. He&#8217;s wrong. Not just politically, but morally. The choice available to him is not between helping 30 million or 40 million people. It&#8217;s between&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}