{"id":183702,"date":"2012-12-13T21:01:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T02:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/12\/13\/pelosi-draws-a-line-in-the-sand\/"},"modified":"2012-12-13T21:01:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-14T02:01:00","slug":"pelosi-draws-a-line-in-the-sand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/12\/13\/pelosi-draws-a-line-in-the-sand\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelosi Draws a Line in the Sand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you can count, and make an educated guess as to how many Republican Congresscritters are batsh%$ insane teabaggers, it&#8217;s pretty clear that a greater proportion of Democrats in the House have to vote for a budget\/tax proposal.<\/p>\n<p>Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/272839-pelosi-dont-even-think-about-raising-the-medicare-age\">Nancy Pelosi just made it clear that the votes aren&#8217;t there if the measure includes an increase in the Medicare eligibility age<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday escalated her opposition to hiking Medicare&#8217;s eligibility age, warning Republican leaders that it&#8217;s a non-starter as part of the lame-duck fiscal talks.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">&#8220;Don&#8217;t even think about raising the Medicare age,&#8221; she said during her weekly press briefing in the Capitol. &#8220;We are not throwing America&#8217;s seniors over the cliff to give a tax cut to the wealthiest people in America. We have clarity on that.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nancy Pelosi is not trying to convince Boehner or McConnell not to cut entitlements, she&#8217;s offering a shot across Obama&#8217;s bow.<\/p>\n<p>Even the Teabagger back benchers understand the politics of trying to pass cuts to Social Security and Medicare without any Democratic votes is political suicide, so even if Obama cuts a deal with the Republicans, they cannot afford to vote for it alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you can count, and make an educated guess as to how many Republican Congresscritters are batsh%$ insane teabaggers, it&#8217;s pretty clear that a greater proportion of Democrats in the House have to vote for a budget\/tax proposal. Well, Nancy Pelosi just made it clear that the votes aren&#8217;t there if the measure includes an &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1020,978,1086,983],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-legislation","category-politics","category-social-safety-net","category-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183702"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}