{"id":714158,"date":"2010-04-12T06:00:29","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T10:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=81865"},"modified":"2010-04-12T06:00:29","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T10:00:29","slug":"4-john-kerry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/714158","title":{"rendered":"4. John Kerry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-81866\" title=\"John Kerry\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/washingtonindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/kerry-245x276.jpg?resize=223%2C252\" alt=\"\" width=\"223\" height=\"252\" \/>As the Democrat in the &#8220;tri-partisan&#8221; Graham-Lieberman-Kerry Senate  climate bill, Kerry will be responsible for rallying Senate Democrats,  especially liberals, to get behind the legislation. It&#8217;s expected that  some liberals will protest the Senate bill and argue that it doesn&#8217;t go  far enough to combat climate change. Though many of these opponents will  end up voting for the bill anyway, regarding it as a step in the right  direction but not the final word, Kerry is in danger of losing support  from select lawmakers such as <a id=\"w:w-\" title=\"Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)\" href=\"http:\/\/sanders.senate.gov\/\">Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).<\/a> If Kerry fails to get Sanders or other outliers on board, it will only  lead to a more difficult, and louder, debate on the Democratic side. And  ultimately, it&#8217;s Kerry who is the policy heavyweight in the Senate trio  &#8212; and the entire nation will be looking to him to craft a bill that&#8217;s  not only effective, but also politically palatable.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/81870\/3-barack-obama\">Next: 3. Barack Obama<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Democrat in the &#8220;tri-partisan&#8221; Graham-Lieberman-Kerry Senate climate bill, Kerry will be responsible for rallying Senate Democrats, especially liberals, to get behind the legislation. It&#8217;s expected that some liberals will protest the Senate bill and argue that it doesn&#8217;t go far enough to combat climate change. Though many of these opponents will end up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3287,"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-714158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2ZMG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714158","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\/3287"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=714158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}