{"id":693653,"date":"2010-03-17T10:12:01","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T14:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.suntimes.com,2010:\/sweet\/\/25.32983"},"modified":"2010-03-17T10:17:10","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T14:17:10","slug":"kucinich-agrees-to-vote-for-obama-health-bill-obama-hunting-for-216-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/693653","title":{"rendered":"Kucinich agrees to vote for Obama health bill. Obama hunting for 216 Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON&#8211;Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) just announced that he will&#8211;albeit reluctantly&#8211;vote for President Obama&#8217;s health bill. Kucinich was one of the leading critics of the plan and an advocate for a public option&#8211;which is not in the legislation. Kucinich may well have been under intense pressure as Democrats hunt for 216 votes in the House. Obama gave Kucinich a ride on Air Force One on Monday when he flew to Ohio to stump for his plan.<\/p>\n<p>While saying this is not the bill he wanted, Kucinich said the Obama legislation &#8220;clearly does not advocate socialism or government takeover of health care.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON&#8211;Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) just announced that he will&#8211;albeit reluctantly&#8211;vote for President Obama&#8217;s health bill. Kucinich was one of the leading critics of the plan and an advocate for a public option&#8211;which is not in the legislation. Kucinich may well have been under intense pressure as Democrats hunt for 216 votes in the House. Obama [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2683,"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-693653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2UrX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693653","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\/2683"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}