{"id":2746,"date":"2009-12-17T17:08:42","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T22:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=2746"},"modified":"2009-12-17T23:17:38","modified_gmt":"2009-12-18T04:17:38","slug":"senators-meet-santa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/2746\/senators-meet-santa\/","title":{"rendered":"Senators Meet Santa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) is one\u00a0of the few good guys on Capitol Hill.\u00a0\u00a0He and Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK)\u00a0have taken the lead\u00a0to stop government-run health care in the Senate.\u00a0\u00a0In fact, they&#8217;re\u00a0using every procedural\u00a0tool under the sun to defeat the Senate\u2019s disasterous version of\u00a0\u201creform.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/72813-demint-promises-to-delay-healthcare-and-force-christmas-eve-vote\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>The Hill <\/em>newspaper<\/span><\/a>, DeMint is even prepared to go so far as to slow debate and force Christmas Eve votes.\u00a0 As DeMint noted, &#8220;I think it\u2019s our responsibility to stretch this out because every day we do we have time to tell Americans what\u2019s in it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For those of you looking for something interesting to watch over the holidays, the Senate will likely be in session on Christmas Eve.<\/p>\n<p>This is the final push against government-run health care.\u00a0 If you haven\u2019t done so already, call your Senators at 202-224-3121 and tell them to oppose the Senate health care bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) is one\u00a0of the few good guys on Capitol Hill.\u00a0\u00a0He and Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK)\u00a0have taken the lead\u00a0to stop government-run health care in the Senate.\u00a0\u00a0In fact, they&#8217;re\u00a0using every procedural\u00a0tool under the sun to defeat the Senate\u2019s disasterous version of\u00a0\u201creform.\u201d According to The Hill newspaper, DeMint is even prepared to go so far [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,271,38,15],"class_list":["post-2746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-health-care","tag-jim-demint","tag-senate","tag-tom-coburn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2746","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2746"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2749,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2746\/revisions\/2749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}