{"id":4094,"date":"2010-03-04T15:41:27","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T20:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=4094"},"modified":"2010-03-04T16:43:41","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T21:43:41","slug":"is-obama-selling-judgeships-for-health-care-votes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/4094\/is-obama-selling-judgeships-for-health-care-votes\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Obama Selling Judgeships for Health Care Votes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John McCormack of <em>The Weekly Standard<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/weeklystandard.com\/blogs\/obama-now-selling-appeals-court-judgeships-health-care-votes\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> yesterday:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Tonight, Barack Obama will host ten House Democrats who voted against the health care bill in November at the White House; he&#8217;s obviously trying to persuade them to switch their votes to yes. One of the ten is Jim Matheson of Utah. The White House just sent out a press release announcing that today President Obama nominated Matheson&#8217;s brother Scott M. Matheson, Jr. to the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>First it was the &#8220;Louisiana Purchase.&#8221; Then, the &#8220;Cornhusker Kickback.&#8221;\u00a0 Is the president now trading federal judgeship&#8217;s for health care votes?\u00a0 Read\u00a0McCormack&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/weeklystandard.com\/blogs\/obama-now-selling-appeals-court-judgeships-health-care-votes\" target=\"_blank\">entire piece<\/a>, then you decide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John McCormack of The Weekly Standard reported yesterday: Tonight, Barack Obama will host ten House Democrats who voted against the health care bill in November at the White House; he&#8217;s obviously trying to persuade them to switch their votes to yes. One of the ten is Jim Matheson of Utah. The White House just sent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,924,14,923,925],"class_list":["post-4094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-health-care","tag-jim-matheson","tag-president-obama","tag-scott-m-matheson","tag-u-s-court-of-appeals-for-the-tenth-circuit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4094","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4094"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4101,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4094\/revisions\/4101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}