{"id":387891,"date":"2010-03-04T08:55:53","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T13:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=78295"},"modified":"2010-03-04T08:55:53","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T13:55:53","slug":"tea-party-groups-protest-financial-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/387891","title":{"rendered":"Tea Party Groups Protest Financial Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tea Party Nation blasted out an email asking its Tennessee members to protest Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) and stop financial reform legislation &#8212; which conservatives have done a lot to define, under the radar, as some sort of socialist scheme.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Senator Bob Corker (RINO-TN) has announced there is a compromise with Chris Dodd (read that as a total Republican surrender) that will allow financial regulation to go forward.<span id=\"more-78295\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This will include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Making the major players in the financial sector &#8220;too big to fail&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Authorizing the Federal Reserve to provide as much as $4 Trillion dollars the next time Wall Street crashes.<\/li>\n<li>Allows the government to back financial firms&#8217; &#8220;debts&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Creates a Board of Regulators to &#8220;spot&#8221; financial risks.\u00a0 (Could this be made of the same group of geniuses who missed all of the signs that led to this financial crisis?)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These are just the details we know about.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>There&#8217;s actually some discussion going on inside Tea Party groups as to whether it&#8217;s worth continuing to hammer on health care or whether its fate is sealed and it&#8217;s important to pre-define the financial reform and energy fights. Here&#8217;s an example of moving on &#8212; Tennessee, after all, is home to two retiring Democratic congressman who may switch their &#8220;no&#8221; votes to &#8220;yes&#8221; votes and save health care reform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tea Party Nation blasted out an email asking its Tennessee members to protest Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) and stop financial reform legislation &#8212; which conservatives have done a lot to define, under the radar, as some sort of socialist scheme. Senator Bob Corker (RINO-TN) has announced there is a compromise with Chris Dodd (read that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4313,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-387891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387891","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\/4313"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}