{"id":190507,"date":"2009-11-19T17:43:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T22:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/11\/19\/this-is-what-you-get-when-you-go-for-bipartisanship\/"},"modified":"2009-11-19T17:43:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-19T22:43:00","slug":"this-is-what-you-get-when-you-go-for-bipartisanship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/11\/19\/this-is-what-you-get-when-you-go-for-bipartisanship\/","title":{"rendered":"This is What You Get When You Go For Bipartisanship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not only were there bogus tax cuts in the unemployment extension, in order to pick up a few Republican votes, it now appears that the <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2009\/11\/18\/news\/economy\/Unemployment_benefits\/index.htm\">extended benefits will expire at year&#8217;s end<\/a>, because they were paying attention to the end of the year when they passed this bill just 2 weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>If the Republicans want to stop a bill like this, one that has a huge majority supporting it, they should be made to express their opposition on the floor.  Spending a few months cajoling them is counter productive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not only were there bogus tax cuts in the unemployment extension, in order to pick up a few Republican votes, it now appears that the extended benefits will expire at year&#8217;s end, because they were paying attention to the end of the year when they passed this bill just 2 weeks ago. If the Republicans &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,975,1020,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-employment","category-legislation","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190507"}],"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=190507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}