{"id":193021,"date":"2009-01-27T18:35:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-27T23:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/27\/because-they-still-wont-vote-for-it\/"},"modified":"2009-01-27T18:35:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-27T23:35:00","slug":"because-they-still-wont-vote-for-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/27\/because-they-still-wont-vote-for-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Because They Still Won&#8217;t Vote For It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img84.imageshack.us\/img84\/99\/lucycharlie9930140ki9.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" width=\"375\" \/>So while Barack Obama is meeting with Republicans to get support for the stimulus package, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0109\/18024.html\">John Boehner has already instructed his caucus not to vote for it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A bright spot in all this is the report that Obama told the &#8216;Phants at a meeting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0109\/18033.html\">to go pound sand on low income tax cuts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They are claiming that it&#8217;s &#8220;Welfare&#8221;, though Ronald Reagan called it the &#8220;Earned Income Tax Credit,&#8221; and strongly supported it.<\/p>\n<p>H\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americablog.com\/2009\/01\/house-gop-leadership-tells-members-to.html\">Americablog<\/a> for the pic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So while Barack Obama is meeting with Republicans to get support for the stimulus package, John Boehner has already instructed his caucus not to vote for it. A bright spot in all this is the report that Obama told the &#8216;Phants at a meeting to go pound sand on low income tax cuts. They are &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1038,998,1020,983,1173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-congress","category-legislation","category-taxes","category-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193021"}],"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=193021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}