{"id":3096,"date":"2010-01-11T11:03:31","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T16:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=3096"},"modified":"2010-01-11T11:06:53","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T16:06:53","slug":"congress-hearts-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/3096\/congress-hearts-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress Hearts Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To give President Obama some credit, he knows how to get Congress in line.\u00a0  Or,\u00a0 perhaps Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid know how to crack the whip on their members.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.congress.org\/news\/2010\/01\/10\/congress_backed_obama_in_09\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">According to <em>Congressional Quarterly<\/em><\/span><\/a>, Congress voted with the President 96.7% of the time in which he had a clearly stated position.\u00a0  This broke the 44-year old mark set by President Lyndon Johnson, according to the study.\u00a0 Oddly, President Johnson also had a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cato.org\/research\/fiscal_policy\/bush\/fig3.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">miserable fiscal record<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, many Democrats who voted with President Obama in the past will attempt to run as far away from the President as possible when pitching their \u201cachievements\u201d to voters. \u00a0 Luckily, Congress can&#8217;t hide from its <a href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/home\/rollcallvotes.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">voting record<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0  From cap-and-trade, to tax hikes, to pork-barrel stimulus spending, this Congress has been far worse than the previous band of tax-and-spend acolytes.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, voters will have a chance to voice their disapproval on November 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To give President Obama some credit, he knows how to get Congress in line.\u00a0 Or,\u00a0 perhaps Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid know how to crack the whip on their members. According to Congressional Quarterly, Congress voted with the President 96.7% of the time in which he had a clearly stated position.\u00a0 This broke the 44-year [&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":[84,77,111,14],"class_list":["post-3096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-congress","tag-harry-reid","tag-nancy-pelosi","tag-president-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3096","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=3096"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3098,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3096\/revisions\/3098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}