{"id":190924,"date":"2009-10-14T18:15:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-14T23:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/10\/14\/alan-grayson-leans-on-reid\/"},"modified":"2009-10-14T18:15:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-14T23:15:00","slug":"alan-grayson-leans-on-reid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/10\/14\/alan-grayson-leans-on-reid\/","title":{"rendered":"Alan Grayson Leans on Reid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">really<\/span> starting to like this guy.<sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: 78%;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s just <a href=\"http:\/\/theplumline.whorunsgov.com\/senate-republicans\/liberal-hero-alan-grayson-to-harry-reid-get-tougher-on-fellow-dems\/\">delivered a petition with over 90K signatures to Harry Reid telling him to do his f$#@ing job and lead<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>I\u2019m told Dem Rep. <span>Grayson<\/span> will hold a press conference this afternoon in D.C. to unveil a petition to Reid bearing more than 90,000 signatures, collected by the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, insisting that \u201cany Democratic senators who support a Republican attempt to block a vote on health care reform should be stripped of their leadership titles.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While it is clear that Harry Reid could not do this on his own, he would need backing from other people in the senate leadership, as well as the White House, if he can&#8217;t keep Democrats from filibustering <span>healthcare<\/span> reform, why should we pull the lever for Democrats?<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: 78%;\">In a 110% purely heterosexual kind of way, of course, as <a href=\"http:\/\/patriotboy.blogspot.com\/\">the General would say<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m really starting to like this guy.* He&#8217;s just delivered a petition with over 90K signatures to Harry Reid telling him to do his f$#@ing job and lead: I\u2019m told Dem Rep. Grayson will hold a press conference this afternoon in D.C. to unveil a petition to Reid bearing more than 90,000 signatures, collected by &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1046,1020,978,1173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-healthcare","category-legislation","category-politics","category-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190924"}],"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=190924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}