{"id":4865,"date":"2015-06-09T06:57:49","date_gmt":"2015-06-09T11:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4865"},"modified":"2015-06-09T12:48:56","modified_gmt":"2015-06-09T17:48:56","slug":"chutzpah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4865","title":{"rendered":"Chutzpah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Joys_of_Yiddish\">The Joys of Yiddish<\/a>, <\/em>Leo Rosten\u00c2\u00a0defines <i><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chutzpah\">chutzpah<\/a><\/i> as<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>. . . that quality enshrined in a man who, having killed his mother and father, throws himself on the mercy of the court because he is an orphan&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here is a nearly perfect example. John Thune, US Senator from South Dakota,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2015\/06\/08\/gop_senator_blame_obama_if_my_partys_obamacare_sabotage_succeeds\/\"> tweets<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Six million people risk losing their health care subsidies, yet <a class=\"PrettyLink profile customisable h-card\" dir=\"ltr\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/POTUS\" data-scribe=\"element:mention\"><span class=\"PrettyLink-prefix\">@<\/span><span class=\"PrettyLink-value\">POTUS<\/span><\/a> continues to deny that Obamacare is bad for the American people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Six million people have health care subsidies through Obamacare, they risk losing it because Republicans have (1) never supported it and didn&#8217;t vote for it; (2) <a href=\"http:\/\/THUNE: We've got a lot of folks around the country who are very frustrated with the harmful and negative impacts of Obamacare and I suspect are going to want a vote on that. And the House has voted a number of times to repeal it. We've had, I think, an opportunity a few times in the Senate to do that. But my guess is in the majority, that's something that we'll try and do is to repeal and replace it.  BLOCK: And you're talking about - when you say that, you mean repeal the whole thing - a vote to repeal the whole package?  THUNE: My guess is that'll be sort of the opening bid, and I think that my guess also is that probably that means a veto pen at the other end of the process. But I think it's important for us to lay out where we are on this and make it clear to the American people that we think this is a bad law that needs to be repealed and replaced with better policy that actually does address the issue of cost and choice. You know, assuming that we aren't successful with that, then I think the question is are there areas in which we can piece by piece get at some of the more harmful elements of Obamacare and try and find areas where we might get some Democrats to vote with us?\">constantly voted to repeal it<\/a>; (3) waged lawsuits, like the present one, aimed at undermining its legal basis. Now, the argument goes, if he gets his wish and it goes away, it is the President&#8217;s fault.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the The Joys of Yiddish, Leo Rosten\u00c2\u00a0defines chutzpah as . . . that quality enshrined in a man who, having killed his mother and father, throws himself on the mercy of the court because he is an orphan&#8221;. Here is a nearly perfect example. John Thune, US Senator from South Dakota, tweets: Six million &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4865\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chutzpah<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1955,1952,1956,1953,1954,1767,1908],"class_list":["post-4865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-chutzpah","tag-john-thune","tag-joys-of-yiddish","tag-killed-your-parents-and-cried-orphan","tag-leo-rosten","tag-obamacare","tag-wtf-arguments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4865"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4871,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4865\/revisions\/4871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}