{"id":199001,"date":"2007-09-19T22:54:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-20T03:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/09\/19\/harry-reid-defeat-of-webb-bill-proves-gop-cares-more-about-bush-than-troops\/"},"modified":"2007-09-19T22:54:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-20T03:54:00","slug":"harry-reid-defeat-of-webb-bill-proves-gop-cares-more-about-bush-than-troops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/09\/19\/harry-reid-defeat-of-webb-bill-proves-gop-cares-more-about-bush-than-troops\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Reid: Defeat Of Webb Bill Proves GOP Cares More About Bush Than Troops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I like the way that the <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmelectioncentral.com\/2007\/09\/reid_defeat_of_webb_bill_proves_gop_cares_more_about_bush_than_troops.php\">Majority leader of the Senate puts that<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>\u201cIn blocking this bipartisan bill, Republicans have once again demonstrated that they are more committed to protecting the President than protecting our troops. They have shown they will allow President Bush\u2019s flawed war strategy to continue to strain our military rather than allow the availability of troops to dictate our operations. And they believe it is in our national security interest to push our brave troops and their families beyond their breaking point.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDemocrats disagree. We care deeply about rebuilding our badly overextended military and ensuring our troops have the time to properly train, prepare for and recover from battle. And Democrats remain committed to repaying in some small measure the sacrifices our brave troops are making every day.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like the way that the Majority leader of the Senate puts that: \u201cIn blocking this bipartisan bill, Republicans have once again demonstrated that they are more committed to protecting the President than protecting our troops. They have shown they will allow President Bush\u2019s flawed war strategy to continue to strain our military rather than &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1063,1006,978,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iraq","category-military","category-politics","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199001"}],"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=199001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}