{"id":8078,"date":"2010-12-17T16:04:51","date_gmt":"2010-12-17T21:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=8078"},"modified":"2010-12-17T16:04:51","modified_gmt":"2010-12-17T21:04:51","slug":"why-doesn%e2%80%99t-the-senate-just-go-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/8078\/why-doesn%e2%80%99t-the-senate-just-go-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Doesn\u2019t the Senate Just Go Home?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the public death of the omnibus spending bill and a retreat on opposition to tax cuts, why in the world won\u2019t the Democrats running the U. S. Senate simply go home for the holidays?\u00a0 It\u2019s obvious that a majority of Americans are just plain tired of them, and want to move on.\u00a0 Yet, here we are on the precipice of another bitter policy fight as Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2010\/12\/16\/senate-to-vote-saturday-on-dont-ask-repeal-dream-act\/\" target=\"_blank\">readys two more contentious bills for floor votes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The DREAM Act promises to give backdoor amnesty to tens of thousands of illegal immigrants in exchange for getting a college degree.\u00a0 The other bill would repeal the military\u2019s \u2018don\u2019t ask, don\u2019t tell\u2019 policy regarding homosexual service members.<\/p>\n<p>Really?\u00a0 With nearly double-digit unemployment and a trillion dollar budget deficit, these are the kinds of evergreen, polarizing issues the Senate needs to pass judgment on before it takes a three week vacation?<\/p>\n<p>Forget the shenanigans.\u00a0 The Senate should extend the continuing resolution to fund the government and get out of town.\u00a0 We could all use a break.<\/p>\n<p>H\/T: <em>The Daily Caller<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the public death of the omnibus spending bill and a retreat on opposition to tax cuts, why in the world won\u2019t the Democrats running the U. S. Senate simply go home for the holidays?\u00a0 It\u2019s obvious that a majority of Americans are just plain tired of them, and want to move on.\u00a0 Yet, here [&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":[515,70,2198,1843,1953,77,514,178,18],"class_list":["post-8078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-amnesty","tag-budget","tag-daily-caller","tag-dream-act","tag-gays-in-the-military","tag-harry-reid","tag-illegal-immigration","tag-u-s-senate","tag-unemployment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8078","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=8078"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8082,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8078\/revisions\/8082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}