{"id":189267,"date":"2010-04-26T18:47:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T23:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/04\/26\/buck-fen-nelson-that-is\/"},"modified":"2010-04-26T18:47:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-26T23:47:00","slug":"buck-fen-nelson-that-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/04\/26\/buck-fen-nelson-that-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Buck Fen \u2026\u2026 (Nelson, that is)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, the Senate attempted to begin debate on the financial reform package, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/\/id\/36787833\">vote failed by 57-41<\/a>, with Ben Nelson (DINO-NE) voting with the &#8216;Phants.<\/p>\n<p>Reid voted &#8220;no&#8221; as well, but included a motion to reconsider, which is a parliamentary trick to get a do-over.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the most effective thing that the Dems could do right now is to take action against Ben Nelson.<\/p>\n<p>If they start taking real actions against recalcitrant members of their own caucus, it makes it that much easier for them to deal with the Republicans, because they won&#8217;t get knifed by the Liebercrats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, the Senate attempted to begin debate on the financial reform package, and the vote failed by 57-41, with Ben Nelson (DINO-NE) voting with the &#8216;Phants. Reid voted &#8220;no&#8221; as well, but included a motion to reconsider, which is a parliamentary trick to get a do-over. Still, the most effective thing that the Dems could &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1004,1020,978,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-finance","category-legislation","category-politics","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189267"}],"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=189267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}