{"id":676646,"date":"2010-02-26T11:55:52","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T16:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=69276"},"modified":"2010-02-26T11:55:52","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T16:55:52","slug":"judd-gregg-loved-reconciliation-defended-it-on-senate-floor-in-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/676646","title":{"rendered":"Judd Gregg Loved Reconciliation, Defended It on Senate Floor in 2005"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class='hitEmbed_right'><object width=\"320\" height=\"265\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/UjD3gHZ2F6w&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/div>\n<p>New Hampshire Senator Judd Gregg, who must now be referred to by Village media elites in every instance as &#8220;Barack Obama&#8217;s first choice for Commerce Secretary,&#8221; took time on the floor of the United States Senate in 2005 to school Democrats on how and why reconciliation was entirely appropriate.<\/p>\n<p>So much for all that idiotic &#8220;nuclear option&#8221; chatter from the GOP.  It sounds like they&#8217;ve known all along that reconciliation is regular order, just another Senate rule like any other.<\/p>\n<p>Just imagine! There was nothing wrong with majority rule in 2005.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class='wbq'>\n<p><strong>&#8220;If you&#8217;ve got 51 votes for your position, you win!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Thank you, Senator Gregg, Barack Obama&#8217;s first choice for Commerce Secretary.  This lecture will be very helpful in explaining to your GOP Senate colleagues exactly what the rules of the Senate are.<\/p>\n<p>Not unethical, just the <strong>&#8220;rules of the Senate as they are set up to be used.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thank you!<\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"16\" width=\"16\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/seminal.firedoglake.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/share-this\/share-icon-16x16.gif?resize=16%2C16\" alt=\"Share This icon\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=69276&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"Email, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_69276\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"noindex nofollow\">&nbsp;<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p><br style='clear:none' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Hampshire Senator Judd Gregg, who must now be referred to by Village media elites in every instance as &#8220;Barack Obama&#8217;s first choice for Commerce Secretary,&#8221; took time on the floor of the United States Senate in 2005 to school Democrats on how and why reconciliation was entirely appropriate. So much for all that idiotic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2852,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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-676646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Q1E","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676646","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\/2852"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=676646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}