{"id":445721,"date":"2010-03-18T23:01:23","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T03:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.personalliberty.com\/?p=11967"},"modified":"2010-03-18T23:01:23","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T03:01:23","slug":"byrd-cries-foul-and-a-step-dancing-upset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/445721","title":{"rendered":"Byrd Cries Foul and a Step Dancing Upset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>*The author of reconciliation cries \u201cfoul.\u201d<\/strong> Here\u2019s what Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) has to say about using \u201creconciliation\u201d to ram Obamacare through the Senate. You might share this quote with some friends: \u201cI was one of the authors of the legislation that created the budget \u2018reconciliation\u2019 process in 1974, and I am certain putting healthcare reform and climate change legislation on a freight train through Congress is an <strong>outrage that must be resisted<\/strong>\u2026. The misuse of the arcane process of reconciliation\u2014a process intended for deficit reduction\u2014to enact substantive policy changes is <strong>an undemocratic disservice to our people<\/strong> and to the Senate\u2019s institutional role\u2026. Essentially it says \u2018take it or leave it\u2019 to the citizens who sent us here to solve problems, and it prevents members from representing their constituents interests.\u201d [emphasis added]<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>*Hey, whites can step-dance, too.<\/strong> There was a huge kerfuffle at the Sprite Step Off competition in Atlanta this year. Seems all the ladies on one team\u2014from Zeta Tau Alpha sorority at the University of Arkansas\u2014are\u2026 prepare yourself\u2026 white. And they were good. So good in fact, the judges awarded them first place. The mostly black crowd erupted with shouts and boos. Five days later Coca-Cola officials said they had found a \u201cscoring discrepancy\u201d and declared that a black team from Indiana University had tied for first place. The show\u2019s host, rap music artist Ludacris, who is also a person of color, said the reversal was \u201codd,\u201d because he could personally guarantee that the scoring had been \u201cchecked and double-checked.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014Chip Wood<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*The author of reconciliation cries \u201cfoul.\u201d Here\u2019s what Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) has to say about using \u201creconciliation\u201d to ram Obamacare through the Senate. You might share this quote with some friends: \u201cI was one of the authors of the legislation that created the budget \u2018reconciliation\u2019 process in 1974, and I am certain putting healthcare [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-445721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445721","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\/4206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}