{"id":847,"date":"2009-09-25T10:48:04","date_gmt":"2009-09-25T14:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=847"},"modified":"2009-09-25T10:48:04","modified_gmt":"2009-09-25T14:48:04","slug":"oh-how-hard-it-is-to-represent-the-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/847\/oh-how-hard-it-is-to-represent-the-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh How Hard It Is To Represent the People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Mike Soraghan, <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/60109-dem-campaign-anxiety\" target=\"_blank\">TheHill.com<\/a>:\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Politically vulnerable Democrats say Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other House leaders aren\u2019t offering them the protection from tough votes that they did in the last Congress.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConservative Democrats fear that dozens of members could be swept out of their districts in the midterm election next year, and that fear has been intensifying in recent weeks.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So why don\u2019t they take an easy vote?\u00a0 The Democratic House Caucus decides who will be Speaker.\u00a0 We\u2019d be willing to bet that just about anyone voting to remove Pelosi could have their seats in perpetuity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Mike Soraghan, TheHill.com:\u00a0 &#8220;Politically vulnerable Democrats say Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other House leaders aren\u2019t offering them the protection from tough votes that they did in the last Congress. \u201cConservative Democrats fear that dozens of members could be swept out of their districts in the midterm election next year, and that fear has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[185,36],"class_list":["post-847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-house-of-representatives","tag-pelosi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":848,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions\/848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}