{"id":282247,"date":"2010-02-05T12:25:35","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T17:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=75898"},"modified":"2010-02-05T12:25:35","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T17:25:35","slug":"a-rocky-start-to-the-new-era-of-bipartisanship-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/282247","title":{"rendered":"A Rocky Start to the New Era of Bipartisanship, Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The story is a bit surreal, but goes something like this:<\/p>\n<p>1) Republicans <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/02\/26\/AR2009022602822.html\" >claim<\/a> to hate government spending.<\/p>\n<p>2) President Obama <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2010\/02\/full-statement-from-shelbys-office-on-the-blanket-hold.php\" >withholds<\/a> some funding original earmarked for defense projects in Alabama.<\/p>\n<p>3) In protest, Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.al.com\/live\/2010\/02\/senate_leader_shelby_blocking.html\" >puts<\/a> a &#8220;blanket hold&#8221; on all Obama nominees, demanding more money for his state.<\/p>\n<p>4) Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2010\/02\/mcconnells-office-questions-shelby-story-then-kicks-hold-questions-back-to-him.php\" >declines<\/a> to comment.<\/p>\n<p>Proving that it&#8217;s tough to be a fiscal conservative <em>and<\/em> sincere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The story is a bit surreal, but goes something like this: 1) Republicans claim to hate government spending. 2) President Obama withholds some funding original earmarked for defense projects in Alabama. 3) In protest, Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) puts a &#8220;blanket hold&#8221; on all Obama nominees, demanding more money for his state. 4) Senate Minority [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4315,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282247","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\/4315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}