{"id":2098,"date":"2010-07-30T21:10:17","date_gmt":"2010-07-30T21:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2098"},"modified":"2010-07-30T21:10:17","modified_gmt":"2010-07-30T21:10:17","slug":"the_dangers_of_toxic_politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2098","title":{"rendered":"The Dangers Of Toxic Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hosted.ap.org\/dynamic\/stories\/U\/US_ATTACKS_HEALTH?SITE=FLTAM&amp;SECTION=US\">Tampa Bay Online<\/a>&nbsp;posted an Associated Press article today about the House of Representatives failure to pass a bill to help the first responders of the 9\/11 terrorist attacks pay for the health problems they have encountered because of the toxic fumes they breathed in the rescue and cleanup efforts.<\/p>\n<p>There were procedural things done in the process of placing this bill before the House of Representatives that need to be considered in understanding exactly what happened.&nbsp; (I will be posting more on this bill and what happened as more information becomes available).<\/p>\n<p>Democratic leaders opted to consider&nbsp;the bill under a procedure that blocks any GOP amendments to the bill.&nbsp; That procedure requires a two-thirds vote for approval rather than a simple majority.&nbsp; The bill failed to win a two-thirds majority.&nbsp; The actual vote tally can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/clerk.house.gov\/evs\/2010\/roll491.xml\">thomas.gov<\/a>.&nbsp; If you look at the tally, you will see that the vote was largely along party lines, although some Republicans voted for it and others voted against it.&nbsp; Some Democrats voted against it and some voted for it.&nbsp; The actual vote was 255 for and 159 against, with 18 not voting.<\/p>\n<p>The bottom line here is simple.&nbsp; Had the bill gone forward in the usual manner and Republicans allowed to make amendments to it, it would have needed a simple majority to pass, and it would have passed.&nbsp; Because the atmosphere right now in Washington is so toxic, a procedureal maneuver was used by the Democrats to keep Republicans from adding input to the bill.<\/p>\n<p>This is campaign season.&nbsp; The atmosphere will only get worse.&nbsp; I am not sure exactly when Congress is going home, but they need to leave now and think about what they are doing to the country.&nbsp; We need to remember all of this foolishness in November.&nbsp; There are probably less than ten people in Congress right now that I think deserve to be re-elected in November.&nbsp; If you have a longer list, I would love to see it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tampa Bay Online&nbsp;posted an Associated Press article today about the House of Representatives failure to pass a bill to help the first responders of the 9\/11 terrorist attacks pay for the health problems they have encountered because of the toxic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2098\">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-2098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098","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=2098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}