{"id":298320,"date":"2010-02-09T13:49:35","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T18:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=76193"},"modified":"2010-02-09T13:49:35","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T18:49:35","slug":"mcconnell%e2%80%99s-plan-to-create-jobs-drill-baby-drill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/298320","title":{"rendered":"McConnell\u2019s Plan to Create Jobs: Drill, Baby, Drill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following this morning&#8217;s White House jobs <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/obama-leaders-huddle-on-jobs-at-white-house-2010-02-09\" >meeting<\/a> with congressional leaders from both parties, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) issued a statement laying out his four-part plan to tackle the nation&#8217;s unemployment crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s just say there&#8217;s a bit of a theme:<span id=\"more-76193\"><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Increase clean nuclear energy in America<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Expand exploration of offshore areas for oil and gas development<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Develop Clean Coal technologies<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Expand American exports through free trade agreements<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>McConnell&#8217;s plan brings to mind the charges leveled yesterday by House GOP leaders against Obama&#8217;s plans for health care. Bipartisanship, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/02\/08\/AR2010020804202.html\" >the Republicans said<\/a>, is not best accomplished by forcing one party&#8217;s ideas on the other. Seems that McConnell, at least as it pertains to his call to expand offshore drilling, didn&#8217;t get the memo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following this morning&#8217;s White House jobs meeting with congressional leaders from both parties, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) issued a statement laying out his four-part plan to tackle the nation&#8217;s unemployment crisis. Let&#8217;s just say there&#8217;s a bit of a theme: \u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Increase clean nuclear energy in America \u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Expand exploration of offshore areas [&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-298320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298320","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=298320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}