{"id":306478,"date":"2010-02-11T07:55:05","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T12:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=66535"},"modified":"2010-02-11T07:55:05","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T12:55:05","slug":"early-morning-swim-rachel-maddow%e2%80%99s-devastating-takedown-of-republican-obstructionism-hypocrisy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/306478","title":{"rendered":"Early Morning Swim: Rachel Maddow\u2019s Devastating Takedown of Republican Obstructionism, Hypocrisy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class='hitEmbed_none'><object width=\"350\" height=\"212\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/NGsZw-ixOjQ&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x006699&#038;color2=0x54abd6\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/NGsZw-ixOjQ&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x006699&#038;color2=0x54abd6\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"350\" height=\"212\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2010-02-10\/senate-democrats-push-for-bipartisan-backing-of-u-s-jobs-bill.html\">And so it goes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class='wbq'>\n<p>House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said Tuesday  that he left a meeting at the White House with President Obama and  congressional leaders earlier in the day &#8220;hopeful&#8221; that Republican  leaders are willing to work on a bipartisan jobs bill.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Senate Republican Whip Jon Kyl of Arizona predicted the chamber will eventually pass the measure, though he said \u201cthere is no way it can be acted on this week\u201d because the plan is \u201cnot quite yet worked out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kyl also said Democrats shouldn\u2019t advertise the package as jobs legislation because it\u2019s just \u201cextending a bunch of tax policy and related items that we need to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Ho-hum.<\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/share-this\/share-icon-16x16.gif\" alt=\"Share This icon\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=66535&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"Email, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_66535\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"noindex nofollow\">&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And so it goes. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said Tuesday that he left a meeting at the White House with President Obama and congressional leaders earlier in the day &#8220;hopeful&#8221; that Republican leaders are willing to work on a bipartisan jobs bill. [&#8230;] Senate Republican Whip Jon Kyl of Arizona predicted the chamber will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5394,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306478","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\/5394"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}