{"id":101358,"date":"2009-12-23T19:41:54","date_gmt":"2009-12-24T00:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/northwestvoices\/2010581963_thegrandoldpartystrikesagain.html?syndication=rss"},"modified":"2009-12-23T19:41:54","modified_gmt":"2009-12-24T00:41:54","slug":"the-grand-old-party-strikes-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/101358","title":{"rendered":"The Grand Old Party strikes again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Democrats will happily accept responsibility<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>GOP\u2019s Michael Steele says he will hold Democrats responsible for their health-care votes in the upcoming elections [\u201cNext health-care vote today,\u201d News, Dec. 22].<\/p>\n<p>Democrats should be happy to be held responsible for their votes on this monumental legislation.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans also fought tooth and nail to stop both Social Security and Medicare when they became law.<\/p>\n<p>I thank God that the Democrats are again accountable for their votes, and that we will look back at this legislation as doing the right thing for the public, while the Republicans again were on the wrong side of this important issue.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Jim Brown, Wenatchee<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dino Rossi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dino Rossi didn\u2019t want to tell us what the acronym GOP stands for.<\/p>\n<p>But now we know: Grand Obstructionist Party.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Gerry Esterbrook, Seattle<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats will happily accept responsibility GOP\u2019s Michael Steele says he will hold Democrats responsible for their health-care votes in the upcoming elections [\u201cNext health-care vote today,\u201d News, Dec. 22]. Democrats should be happy to be held responsible for their votes on this monumental legislation. Republicans also fought tooth and nail to stop both Social Security [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}