{"id":643348,"date":"2010-01-26T11:04:06","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T16:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=74780"},"modified":"2010-01-26T11:04:06","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T16:04:06","slug":"running-against-reconciliation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/643348","title":{"rendered":"Running Against Reconciliation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Republican Congressional Committee\u00a0 is up on the air in South Carolina with an ad not-so-secretly aimed at getting Rep. John Spratt (D-S.C.) to reconsider his career options. But the striking thing about the ad <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nrcc.org\/Multimedia\/default.aspx?id=44\">is its claim<\/a> that &#8220;Spratt&#8217;s the architect of legislation Democrats may use to ram through a government takeover of health care.&#8221;<span id=\"more-74780\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/XAlRnlQ1Bng\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>What does that mean? The NRCC spells it out in the press release that was sent to reporters. They&#8217;re knocking Spratt &#8220;for his authorship of a budget plan that would allow Pelosi and Congressional Democrats to ram government-run healthcare through Congress using an arcane procedure known as reconciliation.&#8221; They explain:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The budget that Spratt designed allows Democrats to strong-arm the government takeover of healthcare through the Senate with only 51 votes necessary to advance the bill, instead of the 60 votes required in the upper chamber.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So whether or not Democrats use the tools available to them and pass the health care bill, they&#8217;re going to get hammered on it. This has been obvious for weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Republican Congressional Committee\u00a0 is up on the air in South Carolina with an ad not-so-secretly aimed at getting Rep. John Spratt (D-S.C.) to reconsider his career options. But the striking thing about the ad is its claim that &#8220;Spratt&#8217;s the architect of legislation Democrats may use to ram through a government takeover of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2761,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-643348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2HmA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2761"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}