{"id":184302,"date":"2012-06-07T20:08:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-08T01:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/06\/07\/finally-17\/"},"modified":"2012-06-07T20:08:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-08T01:08:00","slug":"finally-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/06\/07\/finally-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harry Reid has explicitly stated that <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/transportation-report\/highways-bridges-and-roads\/230993-reid-says-cantor-trying-to-sabotage-economy\">Republicans are sabotaging the economy for political gain<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Tuesday accused House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) of deliberately trying to sabotage the U.S. economy.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans immediately fired back, with Speaker John Boehner&#8217;s (R-Ohio) spokesman using an eight-letter word to rebuke the Senate leader.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s bull&#8212;-,&#8221; said Boehner spokesman Michael Steel. &#8220;House Republicans are united in our desire to get a sensible, reform-minded transportation bill done, including job-creating energy initiatives like Keystone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reid has grown frustrated by House Republicans\u2019 reluctance to pass a multiyear transportation authorization bill, which Democrats say would create hundreds of thousands of jobs.<\/p>\n<p>House Republicans have threatened to pull out of conference talks with Senate negotiators, according to one media report, which could scuttle any prospects for a deal. A senior House GOP aide, however, disputed the report. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They should have been saying this for at least two years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harry Reid has explicitly stated that Republicans are sabotaging the economy for political gain: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Tuesday accused House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) of deliberately trying to sabotage the U.S. economy. Republicans immediately fired back, with Speaker John Boehner&#8217;s (R-Ohio) spokesman using an eight-letter word to rebuke the Senate &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1038,998,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-congress","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184302"}],"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=184302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}