{"id":1629,"date":"2010-02-19T12:34:55","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T12:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1629"},"modified":"2010-02-19T12:34:55","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T12:34:55","slug":"learning_the_hard_way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1629","title":{"rendered":"Learning The Hard Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Evidently the messages the voters sent in Virginia, New Jersey, and Massachusetts have not yet gotten through.&nbsp; During his Massachusetts campaign, Scott Brown frequently promised to be the 41st vote against the current heathcare reform.&nbsp; He was elected.<\/p>\n<p>Today at <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2010\/02\/19\/health-care-nuclear-option-%e2%80%93-liberals-ready-to-launch\/#more-26827\">The Foundry<\/a>, a website sponsored by The Heritage Foundation, Brian Darling posted a story about the current efforts by the Democrat party to force healthcare through Congress, to the President and into law.<\/p>\n<p>There will be a bipartisan meeting on healthcare reform at the Blair House on February 25th.&nbsp; The President called this meeting saying that it was time for bipartisan cooperation on the bill.&nbsp; That is what he is saying; that is not what he is doing.<\/p>\n<p>According to the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><em>&#8220;According to <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/19\/health\/policy\/19health.html\"><em>The New York Times<\/em><\/a><em>, the plan is to have the President submit reconciliation legislation to be posted on the internet this weekend.&nbsp;The legislation will be crafted in a manner so that it can be passed using special reconciliation procedures created solely to enact laws to reduce the deficit as part of the annual budget.&nbsp; The next step is for the President to conduct his half day bipartisan summit at the Blair House on February 25<sup><font size=\"2\">th<\/font><\/sup>.&nbsp;With that faux-bipartisan stunt over with, the President will be free to pass legislation in a partisan manner that tosses aside the regular rules of business in the Senate.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Any Democrat who signs on to this idea will probably be unemployed after the November election.&nbsp; This is not bipartisanship at all; it is Chicago-style politics.&nbsp; The voters have made it clear that they do not support the current healthcare reform bill. &nbsp;I don&#8217;t understand why this administration is so totally deaf to the will of the American voters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evidently the messages the voters sent in Virginia, New Jersey, and Massachusetts have not yet gotten through.&nbsp; During his Massachusetts campaign, Scott Brown frequently promised to be the 41st vote against the current heathcare reform.&nbsp; He was elected. Today at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1629\">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-1629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629","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=1629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}