{"id":350600,"date":"2010-02-22T17:37:20","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T22:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f87\/dear-leader-reid-bipartisan-jobs-bill-needs-more-than-words-39824\/"},"modified":"2010-02-22T17:37:20","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T22:37:20","slug":"dear-leader-reid-a-bipartisan-jobs-bill-needs-more-than-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/350600","title":{"rendered":"Dear Leader Reid, a Bipartisan Jobs Bill Needs More than Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>02.22.10 08:06 AM<\/p>\n<p>Since Senator Scott Brown (R-Mass.) rocked the political landscape, President Obama, Leader Reid and the media elite have sounded a trumpet for bipartisanship.  It\u0092s funny how losing a filibuster-proof majority can reorient your perspective.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, the clarion call from the American people was that jobs\u0097not health care takeovers, cap-and-trade energy taxes or financial regulations\u0097should be Washington\u0092s main focus.  Leader Reid had a chance to embrace the bipartisanship he claimed to desire and advance his \u0093jobs bill.\u0094  However, he realized that bipartisanship means compromise.  It means accepting things you may not want.  And he decided he\u0092d rather advance a stripped down, ineffective bill than swallow a bipartisan proposal.<\/p>\n<p>Senators Baucus (D-Mont.) and Grassley (R-Iowa) thought they had Reid\u0092s blessing as they put forth a bipartisan effort to stimulate employment and cut taxes.  But Reid killed the bill in less than a day.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0210\/32850.html\" >Reports of objections<\/a> from Reid\u0092s left flank were too much for the Leader.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Reid will get a cloture vote on his own stripped down \u0093jobs bill.\u0094  It\u0092s still unclear if the measure will pass.  But if the weak and ineffective measures in Reid\u0092s bill die on a party-line vote, he will have no one to blame but himself.<\/p>\n<p>So much for the majority\u0092s commitment to bipartisanship.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.americansforprosperity.org\/022210-dear-leader-reid-bipartisan-jobs-bill-needs-more-words\" >http:\/\/www.americansforprosperity.or&#8230;eds-more-words<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>02.22.10 08:06 AM Since Senator Scott Brown (R-Mass.) rocked the political landscape, President Obama, Leader Reid and the media elite have sounded a trumpet for bipartisanship. It\u0092s funny how losing a filibuster-proof majority can reorient your perspective. At the same time, the clarion call from the American people was that jobs\u0097not health care takeovers, cap-and-trade [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5457,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-350600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350600","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\/5457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}