{"id":2234,"date":"2010-09-15T05:03:40","date_gmt":"2010-09-15T05:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2234"},"modified":"2010-09-15T05:03:40","modified_gmt":"2010-09-15T05:03:40","slug":"creating_unnecessary_controver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2234","title":{"rendered":"Creating Unnecessary Controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not ready to put up the victory flag to celebrate a Republican takeover of the Senate, but the Democrat leadership is sure not trying to look good right now.&nbsp; Yesterday the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2010\/09\/14\/reid-adds-controversial-immigration-measure-to-defense-bill\/\">CNN Political Ticker<\/a>&nbsp;reported that Senator Harry Reid is adding the DREAM Act, a controversial immigration measure to the defense bill.&nbsp; &#8220;Don&#8217;t ask, don&#8217;t tell&#8221; has already been added to the defense bill.<\/p>\n<p>The DREAM (Development, Relief and Education of Alien Minors) Act provides a path to citizenship for young illegal immigrants who go to college or serve in the military.<\/p>\n<p>The defense bill usually passes easily&nbsp;with bi-partisan support.&nbsp; Adding these two measures will make the bill much more difficult to pass&#8211;I doubt even Democrats want to take an unpopular stand on immigration right now.<\/p>\n<p>This is the kind of decision that will cause more Americans to vote Republican in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not ready to put up the victory flag to celebrate a Republican takeover of the Senate, but the Democrat leadership is sure not trying to look good right now.&nbsp; Yesterday the&nbsp;CNN Political Ticker&nbsp;reported that Senator Harry Reid is adding &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2234\">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-2234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234","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=2234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}