{"id":3608,"date":"2010-03-22T10:37:08","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T15:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=3608"},"modified":"2010-03-22T10:39:40","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T15:39:40","slug":"how-the-gop-made-it-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2010\/03\/22\/how-the-gop-made-it-happen\/","title":{"rendered":"How the GOP Made It Happen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Follow this link<\/strong><\/a> to the article that explains how the GOP made health care reform happen.<\/p>\n

A special thanks goes out to Scott Brown.\u00a0 Without his win, this might never have happened.\u00a0 Without him there would have to have been 60 Democratic Senators to vote for the bill.\u00a0 Now there only needs to be 51 to vote for the reconciliation.\u00a0 I guess Martha Coakley is a more astute politician than I had thought.<\/p>\n

I didn’t quite see it the way the above article does, but I had been thinking that the more difficult the Republicans make it, the more compromises have to go into the bill.\u00a0 It might have been a cleaner bill if the Republicans had not used the threat to\u00a0 filibuster and had just let the bill come to a vote.\u00a0 They could still have all voted against the bill and it might have been a better bill.<\/p>\n

According to the news yesterday, the passage of the bill meant death to the Democrats come November.\u00a0 Miraculously, today, after the bill passed, the same press thinks it might help the Democrats in November.\u00a0 I guess it is sort of like trying to explain why the stock market goes this way or that on a daily basis.\u00a0 You can make up anything, and there is no one who will disprove your thesis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Follow this link to the article that explains how the GOP made health care reform happen. A special thanks goes out to Scott Brown.\u00a0 Without his win, this might never have happened.\u00a0 Without him there would have to have been 60 Democratic Senators to vote for the bill.\u00a0 Now there only needs to be 51 […]<\/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-3608","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\/3608","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=3608"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3612,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3608\/revisions\/3612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}