{"id":2078,"date":"2010-07-23T13:04:25","date_gmt":"2010-07-23T13:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2078"},"modified":"2010-07-23T13:04:25","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T13:04:25","slug":"the_bill_that_wouldnt_die_may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2078","title":{"rendered":"The Bill That Wouldn&#8217;t Die May Have Died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Hinderaker at&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2010\/07\/026830.php\">Power Line<\/a>&nbsp;reported yesterday that the cap and trade bill is dead&#8211;at least for now.&nbsp; As usual, the Democrats are claiming that they can&#8217;t pass the bill because of lack of cooperation on the part of the Republicans (who are accused of only wanting to secure political points).&nbsp; Really?&nbsp; What about the Democrats who refuse to support the bill?&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>The question here is whether or not the cap and trade bill will be brought up and passed in a lame duck session after the November elections.&nbsp; The Democrats seem to be conceding that they will lose their majority (at least in the House of Representatives), and there is some speculation that they will use a lame duck session to pass unpopular legislation before the Republicans take over.&nbsp; I suppose that is a possibility, but I suspect that it might be something people remember in future elections.&nbsp; I doubt that even the Democrats would be willing to take that chance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Hinderaker at&nbsp;Power Line&nbsp;reported yesterday that the cap and trade bill is dead&#8211;at least for now.&nbsp; As usual, the Democrats are claiming that they can&#8217;t pass the bill because of lack of cooperation on the part of the Republicans (who &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2078\">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-2078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078","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=2078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}