{"id":189867,"date":"2010-02-05T16:10:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T21:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/02\/05\/bipartisanship-this\/"},"modified":"2010-02-05T16:10:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T21:10:00","slug":"bipartisanship-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/02\/05\/bipartisanship-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Bipartisanship This!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Shelby is now <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2010\/02\/report-shelby-blocks-all-obama-nominations-in-the-senate-over-al-earmarks.php\">placing holds on all Obama nominations<\/a> he doesn&#8217;t think that the Obama administration is being friendly enough to Airbus\/Northrop-Grumman on the tanker deal, and because they have not started constructed an FBI lab that he cut an earmark for in his district:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>According to the report, Shelby is<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> holding Obama&#8217;s nominees hostage<\/span> until a pair of lucrative programs that would send billions in taxpayer dollars to his home state get back on track. The two programs Shelby wants to move forward or else:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; A $40 billion contract to build air-to-air refueling tankers. From CongressDaily: &#8220;Northrop\/EADS team would build the planes in Mobile, Ala., but has threatened to pull out of the competition unless the Air Force makes changes to a draft request for proposals.&#8221; Federal Times offers more details on the tanker deal, and also confirms its connection to the hold.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; An improvised explosive device testing lab for the FBI. From CongressDaily: &#8220;[Shelby] is frustrated that the Obama administration won&#8217;t build&#8221; the center, which Shelby earmarked $45 million for in 2008. The center is due to be based &#8220;at the Army&#8217;s Redstone Arsenal.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">emphasis mine<\/span>)<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, you cannot negotiate with these clowns.<\/p>\n<p>Bipartisanship needs a plan B.<\/p>\n<p>I would suggest stress positions, waterboarding, extreme sleep deprivation, and enforced nudity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Shelby is now placing holds on all Obama nominations he doesn&#8217;t think that the Obama administration is being friendly enough to Airbus\/Northrop-Grumman on the tanker deal, and because they have not started constructed an FBI lab that he cut an earmark for in his district: According to the report, Shelby is holding Obama&#8217;s nominees &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,970,969,1051,978,982,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-corruption","category-evil","category-hypocrisy","category-politics","category-stupid","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189867"}],"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=189867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}