{"id":759,"date":"2009-04-24T20:43:37","date_gmt":"2009-04-24T20:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=759"},"modified":"2009-04-24T20:43:37","modified_gmt":"2009-04-24T20:43:37","slug":"if_its_so_good_why_arent_you_w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=759","title":{"rendered":"If It&#8217;s So Good, Why Aren&#8217;t You Willing To Have A Full Debate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/24\/congress-reaches-tentative-deal-on-the-budget\/\">New York Times<\/a>&nbsp;reports that the Obama Administration will&nbsp;use&nbsp;the &#8220;reconciliation&#8221; procedure on&nbsp;its health care program in order to get it through the Senate without it being filibustered.&nbsp; This is not a good idea.&nbsp; The changes the Administration proposes are drastic, and the public needs to be aware of the specifics so that they can weigh in with their Congressmen.&nbsp; According to the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">\n<p><em>&#8220;Senator Kent Conrad of North Dakota has advised using against reconciliation, saying it does not lend itself to such a complex issue as health care. But he came under intense pressure from the White House, his own leadership and the House to agree to include it.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">What happened to the transparency that the Obama Administration promised?&nbsp; Where are the details of the new health care program posted so that the American people can see what the program is?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s New York Times&nbsp;reports that the Obama Administration will&nbsp;use&nbsp;the &#8220;reconciliation&#8221; procedure on&nbsp;its health care program in order to get it through the Senate without it being filibustered.&nbsp; This is not a good idea.&nbsp; The changes the Administration proposes are drastic, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=759\">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-759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759","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=759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}