{"id":646173,"date":"2010-01-27T22:55:59","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T03:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.70594"},"modified":"2010-01-27T23:00:19","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T04:00:19","slug":"dodd-says-he-hopes-obamas-speech-will-spur-gop-to-rethink-mindless-obstructionism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/646173","title":{"rendered":"Dodd says he hopes Obama&#8217;s speech will spur GOP to rethink &#8220;mindless obstructionism&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times; font-size: medium; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; \"><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&#8220;Tonight, the President outlined clear, common-sense steps that we should take to put middle class families back on the path to prosperity,&#8221; Dodd said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">During his speech, Obama highlighted one of Dodd&#8217;s main initiatives, reforming the financial regulatory system. Now, says Dodd, &#8220;this Congress must rise to the challenge before us &#8211; to create jobs, reform Wall Street, and finish our work to make quality health care affordable and accessible to all.&nbsp; I stand ready to work with President Obama.&nbsp; And I know my colleagues in the Democratic Party are ready to roll up their sleeves and get back to work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">What about the GOP? &#8220;I only hope my colleagues on the other side of the aisle use this moment as an opportunity to re-think their strategy of mindless obstructionism and join us in tackling these challenges,&#8221; Dodd said.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Tonight, the President outlined clear, common-sense steps that we should take to put middle class families back on the path to prosperity,&#8221; Dodd said in a statement. During his speech, Obama highlighted one of Dodd&#8217;s main initiatives, reforming the financial regulatory system. Now, says Dodd, &#8220;this Congress must rise to the challenge before us &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2521,"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-646173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2I69","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646173","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\/2521"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}