{"id":809,"date":"2009-09-24T12:05:21","date_gmt":"2009-09-24T16:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=809"},"modified":"2009-09-24T12:08:07","modified_gmt":"2009-09-24T16:08:07","slug":"60-democratic-senators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/809\/60-democratic-senators\/","title":{"rendered":"60 Democratic Senators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you count Senator Robert Byrd, who is recovering in the hospital from a fall, Democrats now have a &#8220;filibuster proof&#8221; 60-seat majority in the U.S. Senate.<\/p>\n<p>Today, as expected, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/breaking_news\/2009\/09\/kirk_to_be_name.html\" target=\"_blank\">Governor Deval Patrick (D-MA) picked<\/a> Paul Kirk Jr. to serve as a temporary replacement for Senator Kennedy.\u00a0 Kirk, like most of the rabble on the Hill, is a lawyer and once served as a health care lobbyist.\u00a0 He will be sworn in this Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Presumably, Kirk will have the easiest job in the Senate.\u00a0 When a cloture motion is filed by the Democrats, vote for it.\u00a0 Nice job to have if you were fortunate enough to work for Senator Kennedy and be well connected in the Bay State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you count Senator Robert Byrd, who is recovering in the hospital from a fall, Democrats now have a &#8220;filibuster proof&#8221; 60-seat majority in the U.S. Senate. Today, as expected, Governor Deval Patrick (D-MA) picked Paul Kirk Jr. to serve as a temporary replacement for Senator Kennedy.\u00a0 Kirk, like most of the rabble on the [&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":[177,63,178],"class_list":["post-809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-paul-kirk","tag-senator-kennedy","tag-u-s-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809","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=809"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":812,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions\/812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}