{"id":9264,"date":"2011-12-19T09:20:41","date_gmt":"2011-12-19T14:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=9264"},"modified":"2011-12-19T09:20:41","modified_gmt":"2011-12-19T14:20:41","slug":"gop-rejects-senate-deal-on-payroll-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2011\/12\/19\/gop-rejects-senate-deal-on-payroll-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP rejects Senate deal on payroll tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>McClatchy<\/em> has published the article <a title=\"McClatchy article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/2011\/12\/18\/133448\/gop-rejects-senate-deal-on-payroll.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>GOP rejects Senate deal on payroll tax<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The fate of the two-month Social Security tax break extension suddenly became uncertain Sunday as House Speaker John Boehner said he and most Republicans were opposed to the plan.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\nIt was thought that Republicans would support the temporary fixes, particularly since they included a GOP provision to speed up consideration of the Keystone XL oil pipeline. The Obama administration had sought to delay a decision on the pipeline, which environmental groups oppose, until 2013. The Senate voted 89 to 10 for the bill.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is mind boggling to contemplate the possibility that Republicans, in their recalcitrance, will finally take the action that Obama promised, but did not have the guts to carry out.<\/p>\n<p>See the previous posts <a title=\"Previous post\" href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2011\/12\/18\/keystone-xl-is-back-on-the-table-for-now\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Keystone XL Is Back On the Table\u2013For Now<\/strong><\/a> and <a title=\"Previous post\" href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2011\/12\/17\/myth-that-keystone-xl-creates-jobs\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Myth That Keystone XL Creates Jobs<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If the Keystone pipeline is such a good idea, then you would think that after careful consideration, the Congress could vote on this as a separate bill.\u00a0 The fact that it has to be snuck into legislation that Obama is afraid to veto shows how bad an idea this pipeline is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McClatchy has published the article GOP rejects Senate deal on payroll tax. The fate of the two-month Social Security tax break extension suddenly became uncertain Sunday as House Speaker John Boehner said he and most Republicans were opposed to the plan. . . . It was thought that Republicans would support the temporary fixes, particularly [&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-9264","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\/9264","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=9264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9265,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9264\/revisions\/9265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}