{"id":2842,"date":"2009-12-22T11:53:12","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T16:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=2842"},"modified":"2009-12-22T12:10:44","modified_gmt":"2009-12-22T17:10:44","slug":"democrats-flee-sinking-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/2842\/democrats-flee-sinking-ship\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Flee Sinking Ship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The party of the donkey might have a 257-178 advantage in the House of Representatives but Alabama Representative Parker Griffith <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/1209\/30896.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">has just announced<\/span><\/a> that he\u2019s switching over to the GOP.<\/p>\n<p>Griffith has spent most of his time in Congress opposing Speaker Pelosi\u2019s legislative priorities, including the <a href=\"http:\/\/clerk.house.gov\/evs\/2009\/roll887.xml\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">government takeover of health care<\/span><\/a> and the $787 billion failed stimulus. \u00a0 In fact, he was one of <a href=\"http:\/\/clerk.house.gov\/evs\/2009\/roll046.xml\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">just eleven<\/span><\/a> House Democrats to oppose the stimulus.<\/p>\n<p>Griffith evidently saw the writing on the wall and recognized that having a \u201cD\u201d after his name would be a political liability in 2010.\u00a0  His district, AL-5 (northern Alabama), gave President Obama 38% of the vote in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>There is no official announcement yet from Representative Griffith.\u00a0  Check back for further details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The party of the donkey might have a 257-178 advantage in the House of Representatives but Alabama Representative Parker Griffith has just announced that he\u2019s switching over to the GOP. Griffith has spent most of his time in Congress opposing Speaker Pelosi\u2019s legislative priorities, including the government takeover of health care and the $787 billion [&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":[667,481,179,478],"class_list":["post-2842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-parker-griffith","tag-speaker-pelosi","tag-stimulus","tag-stimulus-bill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2842","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=2842"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2844,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2842\/revisions\/2844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}