{"id":191872,"date":"2009-06-11T17:29:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-11T22:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/06\/11\/finally-some-backbone-from-the-democrats\/"},"modified":"2009-06-11T17:29:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-11T22:29:00","slug":"finally-some-backbone-from-the-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/06\/11\/finally-some-backbone-from-the-democrats\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally, Some Backbone From the Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t expect it to stick, but a top staffer for Max Baucus (D-MT) just had a meeting with a group of lobbyists, and he told them that if their clients were to attend a meeting on healthcare hosted by Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), it would be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollcall.com\/issues\/54_144\/news\/35773-1.html\">&#8220;viewed as a hostile act&#8221;<\/a>, because the see the meeting as a part of an attempt &#8220;stop healthcare reform.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I expect there to be a right-wing media sh%$storm over this, and for Baucus, or his aide to abjectly apologize, with tail tucked between their legs, because that&#8217;s how Democrats wimp out, but for right now, this is a good thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t expect it to stick, but a top staffer for Max Baucus (D-MT) just had a meeting with a group of lobbyists, and he told them that if their clients were to attend a meeting on healthcare hosted by Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), it would be &#8220;viewed as a hostile act&#8221;, because the see &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1020,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-legislation","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191872"}],"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=191872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}