{"id":735,"date":"2009-09-22T12:22:17","date_gmt":"2009-09-22T16:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=735"},"modified":"2009-09-22T12:23:47","modified_gmt":"2009-09-22T16:23:47","slug":"reid-forget-bipartisanship-well-go-it-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/735\/reid-forget-bipartisanship-well-go-it-alone\/","title":{"rendered":"Reid:  Forget Bipartisanship, We&#8217;ll Go It Alone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Majority\u00a0Leader Harry Reid this morning didn&#8217;t mince words in\u00a0warning\u00a0Senate Republicans that if they don&#8217;t get behind &#8220;health care reform&#8221;\u00a0soon the Dems will use a procedural maneuver to pass it on their own.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If we can\u2019t work this out to do something within the committee structure, then we\u2019ll be forced to do reconciliation.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Reid\u00a0has threatened to use budget reconciliation &#8212; a procedural move that requires a simple majority vote for passage rather than the traditional 60 votes needed in the Senate to pass most bills\u00a0&#8212; \u00a0before, but some have warned that such a move could backfire.\u00a0 The\u00a0Majority Leader&#8217;s &#8220;bipartisanship, we don&#8217;t need no stinking bipartisanship&#8221; moment this morning, however, made it clear that public opposition be damned, Reid is prepared to ram Obama&#8217;s government-run health care experiment down the throats of the American people no matter what it takes.<\/p>\n<p>Given Reid&#8217;s anemic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lasvegassun.com\/news\/2009\/sep\/10\/report-harry-reids-poor-approval-rating-leaves-rac\/\" target=\"_blank\">job approval ratings<\/a>\u00a0in Nevada, it appears he&#8217;s thinking he&#8217;s got nothing left to lose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Majority\u00a0Leader Harry Reid this morning didn&#8217;t mince words in\u00a0warning\u00a0Senate Republicans that if they don&#8217;t get behind &#8220;health care reform&#8221;\u00a0soon the Dems will use a procedural maneuver to pass it on their own.\u00a0 If we can\u2019t work this out to do something within the committee structure, then we\u2019ll be forced to do reconciliation.&#8221; Reid\u00a0has threatened to [&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":[158,12,157],"class_list":["post-735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-budget-reconciliation","tag-health-care","tag-reid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735","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=735"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":738,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions\/738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}