{"id":7890,"date":"2010-12-02T00:18:49","date_gmt":"2010-12-02T05:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=7890"},"modified":"2010-12-02T00:18:49","modified_gmt":"2010-12-02T05:18:49","slug":"harry-reid-testing-voters-with-dream-act-stunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/7890\/harry-reid-testing-voters-with-dream-act-stunt\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Reid Testing Voters With DREAM Act Stunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leave it to a Las Vegan to gamble on a high stakes vote with almost no pay-off.\u00a0 Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) is reportedly going to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whsv.com\/home\/headlines\/Democratic_Senate_Leader_Says_Will_Force_Vote_on_Dream_Act_111130839.html\" target=\"_blank\">schedule a \u201ctest vote\u201d on the DREAM Act<\/a> to see if he can cajole enough senators into supporting the legislative mechanism that swaps American citizenship for a college degree or military service.\u00a0 Not a bad deal if you\u2019re an illegal alien looking for a way to stay, right?<\/p>\n<p>The cynical part about Reid\u2019s stunt is that making senators take a record vote on the DREAM Act won\u2019t pass it.\u00a0 It\u2019s a \u201ctest\u201d vote because it only gauges the amount of support the bill might have if it gets to final passage.\u00a0 However, if Reid gets close to the 60 votes needed to overcome a filibuster, he may think he\u2019s passed the \u201ctest\u201d and go for final passage.\u00a0 Since (most) politicians are loathe to vote for something before voting against it, Reid may think he has enough \u201caye\u201d votes to be close.<\/p>\n<p>That, or he\u2019s trying to convince Latino voters he did everything he could, but just fell short.\u00a0 Either way, it\u2019s desperate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leave it to a Las Vegan to gamble on a high stakes vote with almost no pay-off.\u00a0 Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) is reportedly going to schedule a \u201ctest vote\u201d on the DREAM Act to see if he can cajole enough senators into supporting the legislative mechanism that swaps American citizenship for a college [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[515,1843,77,514],"class_list":["post-7890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-amnesty","tag-dream-act","tag-harry-reid","tag-illegal-immigration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7890","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7890"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7892,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7890\/revisions\/7892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}