{"id":192074,"date":"2009-05-14T17:37:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-14T22:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/05\/14\/another-day-another-obama-backdown-on-a-campaign-promise\/"},"modified":"2009-05-14T17:37:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-14T22:37:00","slug":"another-day-another-obama-backdown-on-a-campaign-promise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/05\/14\/another-day-another-obama-backdown-on-a-campaign-promise\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Day, Another Obama Backdown on a Campaign Promise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So now Barack Obama is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601110&amp;sid=afH8YXIwNoVc\">saying that they just don&#8217;t have the votes to pass the Employee Free Choice Act<\/a> (EFCA):<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>President Barack Obama said there aren\u2019t enough votes in the Senate to pass \u201ccard-check\u201d legislation sought by labor unions and only a revamped measure would have a chance getting through Congress.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere may be areas of compromise to get this bill done,\u201d Obama said today a town hall meeting in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, outside Albuquerque. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:180%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Suck it up man!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>You are the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">President of the United States of America<\/span>!  Your<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> job<\/span> is to <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">find<\/span> the votes for this.<\/p>\n<p>He thinks that by not pushing this, he&#8217;ll get cooperation from the &#8216;Phants healthcare or his other initiatives.  He&#8217;s wrong.<\/p>\n<p>And, BTW, I am <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">sick and tired<\/span> of all these people claiming that he&#8217;s playing some sort of ten dimensional chess, he&#8217;s not.<\/p>\n<p>He figures that labor has no where else to go, so he will not work for them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So now Barack Obama is saying that they just don&#8217;t have the votes to pass the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA): President Barack Obama said there aren\u2019t enough votes in the Senate to pass \u201ccard-check\u201d legislation sought by labor unions and only a revamped measure would have a chance getting through Congress. \u201cThere may be &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1023,1020,1022,1173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-labor","category-legislation","category-union","category-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192074"}],"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=192074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}