{"id":423,"date":"2009-09-01T11:26:55","date_gmt":"2009-09-01T15:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=423"},"modified":"2009-09-01T11:26:55","modified_gmt":"2009-09-01T15:26:55","slug":"grassley-very-opposed-to-health-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/423\/grassley-very-opposed-to-health-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Grassley &#8220;Very&#8221; Opposed to Health Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How opposed is Senator Charles Grassley to the current version of health care reform being debated in Congress?\u00a0 So much so that <a href=\"http:\/\/iowaindependent.com\/19280\/grassley-raises-money-on-opposition-to-health-care-reform\" target=\"_blank\">he&#8217;s raising money<\/a> based on his opposition to Obamacare.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Grassley, once a leader in bipartisan talks, is now raising money and protecting his right flank by informing his constituents that the current version of the Obamacare would &#8220;turn over control of your health care decisions to a federal bureaucrat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Although there is no doubt that our health care system needs reform, Grassley&#8217;s revelation comes as somewhat welcome news, because it has been reported that Democrats are seeking to bypass traditional Senate rules and force &#8220;reform&#8221; through budget reconciliation, a process that does not require 60 votes.<\/p>\n<p>However, Senator Judd Gregg, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/02\/13\/us\/politics\/13gregg.html\" target=\"_blank\">one-time Obama administration advocate<\/a>, is now <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/56897-gop-objections-await-healthcare-plan\" target=\"_blank\">leading the fight <\/a>against these tactics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How opposed is Senator Charles Grassley to the current version of health care reform being debated in Congress?\u00a0 So much so that he&#8217;s raising money based on his opposition to Obamacare. Senator Grassley, once a leader in bipartisan talks, is now raising money and protecting his right flank by informing his constituents that the current [&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":[37,87,12,24,35],"class_list":["post-423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-grassley","tag-gregg","tag-health-care","tag-obama","tag-obamacare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423","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=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":424,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions\/424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}