{"id":683532,"date":"2010-03-05T11:14:03","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T16:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=78492"},"modified":"2010-03-05T11:14:03","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T16:14:03","slug":"the-gop-psych-out-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/683532","title":{"rendered":"The GOP Psych-Out Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greg Sargent <a href=\"http:\/\/theplumline.whorunsgov.com\/senate-republicans\/gop-strategy-bleed-reconciliation-fix-to-death-with-byrd-rule\/\">goes back over<\/a> the strategy that Republicans promise to use if Democrats try the current Senate bill\/reconciliation fix for health care reform. I think Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.), a fixture on morning shows, has been spelling this out for weeks &#8212; terrify the Democrats into thinking the Senate will be so gummed up by procedure that it&#8217;s not worth walking the plank to pass a health care bill. The meta-politics suggest, I think, that Republicans are more worried about a bill actually passing than they&#8217;ve been since Scott Brown&#8217;s election. And while the one poll we&#8217;ve seen shows a majority of voters against the idea of reconciliation, Democrats are in better shape on that procedural issue than Republicans were during the nuclear option debate of 2005.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greg Sargent goes back over the strategy that Republicans promise to use if Democrats try the current Senate bill\/reconciliation fix for health care reform. I think Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.), a fixture on morning shows, has been spelling this out for weeks &#8212; terrify the Democrats into thinking the Senate will be so gummed up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2761,"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-683532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2ROI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683532","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=683532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}