{"id":188097,"date":"2010-12-13T23:10:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-14T04:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/12\/13\/of-course-the-fix-is-in\/"},"modified":"2010-12-13T23:10:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-14T04:10:00","slug":"of-course-the-fix-is-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/12\/13\/of-course-the-fix-is-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Course the Fix is In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/USA\/Politics\/2010\/1213\/Obama-tax-deal-gets-nod-from-Senate.-Will-House-risk-making-changes\">voted for cloture on the Republican wet dream tax bill<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Notwithstanding the &#8220;nonbinding&#8221; vote in the House Democratic Caucus last week, I expect it to pass the house largely unchanged.<\/p>\n<p>I simply do not think that there is enough guts in the house to push back in a meaningful way against this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate voted for cloture on the Republican wet dream tax bill. Notwithstanding the &#8220;nonbinding&#8221; vote in the House Democratic Caucus last week, I expect it to pass the house largely unchanged. I simply do not think that there is enough guts in the house to push back in a meaningful way against this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,970,1020,983],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-corruption","category-legislation","category-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188097"}],"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=188097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}