{"id":218509,"date":"2010-01-22T09:20:52","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T14:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/james-pethokoukis\/?p=3238"},"modified":"2010-01-22T09:20:52","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T14:20:52","slug":"bernanke-could-be-latest-victim-of-massachusetts-miracle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/218509","title":{"rendered":"Bernanke could be latest victim of Massachusetts Miracle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that support for the renomination of Ben Bernanke is falling by the day, says <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.abcnews.com\/politicalpunch\/2010\/01\/senate-dems-not-sure-they-can-get-enough-votes-to-reconfirm-bernanke.html\">ABC News<\/a>. Liberals in Congress want him gone. Then again, they want pretty much the whole Obama economic team gone. But Geithner and Summers aren&#8217;t up for a Senate vote. Bernanke is. And if Dems start bailing, don&#8217;t expect Republicans to save him. No politician in America gains anything by voting for Bernanke. A &#8220;no&#8221; vote is a free vote. Wall Street still loves him, though. Geithner, too.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Count Russ Feingold of Wisconsin as a &#8220;no&#8221; vote.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE 2: Boxer of California , too<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE 3:\u00a0 Nevada&#8217;s Reid is non-committal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that support for the renomination of Ben Bernanke is falling by the day, says ABC News. Liberals in Congress want him gone. Then again, they want pretty much the whole Obama economic team gone. But Geithner and Summers aren&#8217;t up for a Senate vote. Bernanke is. And if Dems start bailing, don&#8217;t expect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1063,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218509","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\/1063"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}