{"id":1549,"date":"2010-01-22T13:44:19","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T13:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1549"},"modified":"2010-01-22T13:44:19","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T13:44:19","slug":"are_the_lessons_from_massachus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1549","title":{"rendered":"Are The Lessons From Massachusetts Being Learned?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2010\/01\/21\/paul-ryan-tells-nro-the-dems-are-going-to-try-reconciliation\/\">Hot Air<\/a>&nbsp;yesterday,&nbsp;Paul Ryan, a Republican Representative from Wisconsin and the ranking member on the House Budget Committee, has told National Review Online that the Democrats plan to use the budget-reconcilliation process to pass the healthcare bill.&nbsp; According to Mr. Ryan, they are meeting this weekend to sort out the details.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Using the reconcilliation process to pass a healthcare bill would mean that the Democrats would only need 51 votes to pass the legislation.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m just not sure I believe this.&nbsp; Every member of the House of Representatives is up for election every two years&#8211;that means they all have to run in 2010.&nbsp; I can&#8217;t believe that the&nbsp;voters&nbsp;in moderate states would reelect people who took such drastic measures to pass a healthcare reform bill that is so unpopular with Americans.&nbsp; There also have to be some shell-shocked Senators running for reelection this year after what happened in Massachusetts.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure why this story is being put out, but I really don&#8217;t believe that the Democrats would be so determined to drive their political party off a cliff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Hot Air&nbsp;yesterday,&nbsp;Paul Ryan, a Republican Representative from Wisconsin and the ranking member on the House Budget Committee, has told National Review Online that the Democrats plan to use the budget-reconcilliation process to pass the healthcare bill.&nbsp; According to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1549\">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-1549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549","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=1549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}