{"id":1581,"date":"2010-02-02T08:18:57","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T08:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1581"},"modified":"2010-02-02T08:18:57","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T08:18:57","slug":"things_we_thought_had_gone_awa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1581","title":{"rendered":"Things We Thought Had Gone Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/78931-trumka-says-card-check-will-pass-in-2010\">The Hill<\/a>&nbsp;reported Sunday that AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka stated&nbsp;during an appearance on CNN that card check legislation will pass this year in spite on the fact that the Democrats no longer have a filibuster-proof majority.&nbsp; Card check is the legislation that takes the secret ballot out of the unionization vote.&nbsp; Tumka also stated that healthcare reform would also pass this year.&nbsp; I have two reactions to these statements&#8211;the first is that he reinforces the need for all of us to pay attention to what is going on in Washington every day.&nbsp; Both of these bills seemed to have died, but evidently they have not.&nbsp; The second reaction is to wonder if he has accurate information and what it is based on.<\/p>\n<p>Congress seems to have a temporary hearing problem.&nbsp; I guess we just have to elect more Senators who will listen to the people to correct the problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hill&nbsp;reported Sunday that AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka stated&nbsp;during an appearance on CNN that card check legislation will pass this year in spite on the fact that the Democrats no longer have a filibuster-proof majority.&nbsp; Card check is the legislation &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1581\">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-1581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581","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=1581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}