{"id":189478,"date":"2010-03-22T17:49:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T22:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/03\/22\/party-line-vote\/"},"modified":"2010-03-22T17:49:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T22:49:00","slug":"party-line-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/03\/22\/party-line-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Party Line Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img200.imageshack.us\/img200\/5914\/democratsspotabackbone5.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" width=\"300\" \/>Dodd&#8217;s weak tea financial reform <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/03\/22\/AR2010032202151.html\">passes the Senate Banking Committee<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s hoping that the Barny Frank &#8211; slightly less weak tea &#8211; bill prevails in conference committee, though if the Dems were smart, they would use finance reform as a way to get the Republicans to vote for the fat cat Wall Street bankers, and then use those votes as a cudgel in November.<\/p>\n<p>But that would require that Democrats find their spines, which I think is unlikely.<\/p>\n<p>They do not realize that having a backbone is something that voters place a <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">huge<\/span> value on, perhaps even more than philosophy and policy.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why the leading candidate in the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Republican<\/span> primary in Alan Grayson&#8217;s district is <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/ok-this-is-weird.html\">Alan Grayson<\/a><\/span><\/span>, because voters vote for politicians with guts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dodd&#8217;s weak tea financial reform passes the Senate Banking Committee. Here&#8217;s hoping that the Barny Frank &#8211; slightly less weak tea &#8211; bill prevails in conference committee, though if the Dems were smart, they would use finance reform as a way to get the Republicans to vote for the fat cat Wall Street bankers, and &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-189478","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\/189478"}],"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=189478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}