{"id":14667,"date":"2013-10-07T09:48:40","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T13:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=14667"},"modified":"2013-10-07T09:48:40","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T13:48:40","slug":"harry-reid-speaker-boehner-has-a-credibility-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2013\/10\/07\/harry-reid-speaker-boehner-has-a-credibility-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Reid: &#8216;Speaker Boehner Has A Credibility Problem&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Talking Points Memo<\/em> has the article <a title=\"Talking Points Memo article\" href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/livewire\/harry-reid-speaker-boehner-has-a-credibility-problem\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Harry Reid: &#8216;Speaker Boehner Has A Credibility Problem&#8217;<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you have ever wanted a diplomatic way of calling someone a liar, then this is one possibility.<\/p>\n<p>Further into the article it discusses Chuck Schumer&#8217;s challenge with respect to presenting a clean continuing resolution to the floor of the House of Representatives for an up or down vote.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Despite reports to the contrary, Boehner was adamant on Sunday that such a bill could not pass the lower chamber. In response, Democrats like Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and White House spokesman Jay Carney <a title=\"Report on Shumer challenge\" href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/livewire\/schumer-to-boehner-prove-that-a-clean-cr-won-t-pass\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>challenged Boehner to prove<\/strong><\/a> his claim and bring the legislation to a vote.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Perhaps Speaker Boner just wants to be pushed into doing what he claims he does not want to do so that he won&#8217;t be blamed for doing it by the Tea Party.\u00a0 Is tea a euphemism for something else that we usually think of for being smoked?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talking Points Memo has the article Harry Reid: &#8216;Speaker Boehner Has A Credibility Problem&#8217;. If you have ever wanted a diplomatic way of calling someone a liar, then this is one possibility. Further into the article it discusses Chuck Schumer&#8217;s challenge with respect to presenting a clean continuing resolution to the floor of the House [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14667","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14668,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14667\/revisions\/14668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}