{"id":193214,"date":"2009-01-09T00:15:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-09T05:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/09\/and-on-the-other-side-of-the-congress\/"},"modified":"2009-01-09T00:15:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-09T05:15:00","slug":"and-on-the-other-side-of-the-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/09\/and-on-the-other-side-of-the-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"And on the Other Side of the Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pelosi has the right idea.<\/p>\n<p>She is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/glennthrush\/0109\/Pelosi_urging_Obama_to_move_faster_on_taxcut_repeal.html?showall\">arguing for immediate repeal of tax cuts for people making more than $\u00bc million a year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I like this for 2 reasons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s good policy.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s an even better place to start negotiations from.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The you only need two republicans, plus Uncle Joe Lieberman, to get this through the Senate, and you do not even need them on a budget bill, though there other 60 vote (actually 59 right now with 2 vacant seats) hoops to jump through.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pelosi has the right idea. She is arguing for immediate repeal of tax cuts for people making more than $\u00bc million a year. I like this for 2 reasons: It&#8217;s good policy. It&#8217;s an even better place to start negotiations from. The you only need two republicans, plus Uncle Joe Lieberman, to get this through &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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-congress","category-legislation","category-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193214"}],"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=193214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}