{"id":392648,"date":"2010-03-05T11:14:03","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T16:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=78492"},"modified":"2010-03-05T11:14:03","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T16:14:03","slug":"the-gop-psych-out-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/392648","title":{"rendered":"The GOP Psych-Out Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greg Sargent <a href=\"http:\/\/theplumline.whorunsgov.com\/senate-republicans\/gop-strategy-bleed-reconciliation-fix-to-death-with-byrd-rule\/\">goes back over<\/a> the strategy that Republicans promise to use if Democrats try the current Senate bill\/reconciliation fix for health care reform. I think Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.), a fixture on morning shows, has been spelling this out for weeks &#8212; terrify the Democrats into thinking the Senate will be so gummed up by procedure that it&#8217;s not worth walking the plank to pass a health care bill. The meta-politics suggest, I think, that Republicans are more worried about a bill actually passing than they&#8217;ve been since Scott Brown&#8217;s election. And while the one poll we&#8217;ve seen shows a majority of voters against the idea of reconciliation, Democrats are in better shape on that procedural issue than Republicans were during the nuclear option debate of 2005.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greg Sargent goes back over the strategy that Republicans promise to use if Democrats try the current Senate bill\/reconciliation fix for health care reform. I think Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.), a fixture on morning shows, has been spelling this out for weeks &#8212; terrify the Democrats into thinking the Senate will be so gummed up [&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-392648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392648","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=392648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}