{"id":1021,"date":"2009-10-01T13:24:01","date_gmt":"2009-10-01T17:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=1021"},"modified":"2009-10-01T13:24:01","modified_gmt":"2009-10-01T17:24:01","slug":"senate-democrats-screw-states-reid-screws-other-democrats-and-their-states-democrats-complain-reid-makes-campaign-speech-states-still-get-screwed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/1021\/senate-democrats-screw-states-reid-screws-other-democrats-and-their-states-democrats-complain-reid-makes-campaign-speech-states-still-get-screwed\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Democrats Screw States.  Reid Screws Other Democrats (and Their States).  Democrats Complain.  Reid Makes Campaign Speech.  States Still Get Screwed."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When we posted <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/56-health-care\/370-its-10-pm-do-you-know-where-your-governor-is\" target=\"_blank\">commentary<\/a> this morning regarding the imposition of ginormous new Medicaid mandates on the states if \u201chealth care reform\u201d passes, we briefly alluded to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, in an attempt to ease his dismal re-election chances, getting 100% reimbursement for Nevada, while sticking other states with their share and part of his also.<\/p>\n<p>Our point was to motivate governors (who well understand the problem) to oppose this travesty.<\/p>\n<p>Manu Raju of politico.com wrote on another aspect of Reid\u2019s sweetheart deal \u2013 the grumbling of other Senate Democrats \u2013 and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0909\/27781.html\" target=\"_blank\">the piece<\/a> is priceless.<\/p>\n<p>Note how the other Democrats oh so seriously want their states to be treated \u201cfairly,\u201d not once acknowledging that they are about to screw all of them, in varying degrees.<\/p>\n<p>Note how Reid uses the argument to make his campaign speech to Nevadans, which seems to say, \u201cI\u2019m going to pass this bill that screws you, but less than others.\u00a0 Don\u2019t you want to keep me?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Note how none of these worthies recognize how ridiculous they sound.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we posted commentary this morning regarding the imposition of ginormous new Medicaid mandates on the states if \u201chealth care reform\u201d passes, we briefly alluded to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, in an attempt to ease his dismal re-election chances, getting 100% reimbursement for Nevada, while sticking other states with their share and part of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[77,12],"class_list":["post-1021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-harry-reid","tag-health-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1022,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021\/revisions\/1022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}