{"id":1200,"date":"2009-09-22T14:35:44","date_gmt":"2009-09-22T14:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1200"},"modified":"2009-09-22T14:35:44","modified_gmt":"2009-09-22T14:35:44","slug":"the_healthcare_vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1200","title":{"rendered":"The Healthcare Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to an article in <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/59763-reid-gives-gop-direct-warning-on-healthcare\">The Hill<\/a>&nbsp;today, Harry Reid has warned the Republicans that he will use the budget reconcilliation process to pass healthcare reform if the legislation is stalled in committee.&nbsp; Senator Reid has also threatened to cancel the Columbus Day week-long recess if he is not satisfied with the progress of healthcare reform.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate is willing to do almost anything in order to pass healthcare.&nbsp; The Democrat leadership has put pressure on the Governor of Massachusetts to get a law passed in the state to allow him to appoint a Senator to fill Ted Kennedy&#8217;s seat until the special election in January.&nbsp; The health of Robert Byrd has also become an issue in recent days.&nbsp; Even the most liberal Republicans have not been willing to vote for the proposals currently being debated.&nbsp; To pass healthcare&nbsp;by the budget reconcilliation process&nbsp;would be political suicide for many of the&nbsp;Democrat Congressmen.&nbsp; It will be interesting to see if the Democrats are willing to commit political suicide in order to pass healthcare.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to an article in The Hill&nbsp;today, Harry Reid has warned the Republicans that he will use the budget reconcilliation process to pass healthcare reform if the legislation is stalled in committee.&nbsp; Senator Reid has also threatened to cancel the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1200\">Continue reading <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":[],"class_list":["post-1200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}