{"id":446500,"date":"2010-03-19T07:50:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T11:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=73745"},"modified":"2010-03-19T07:50:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T11:50:00","slug":"early-morning-swim-rachel-maddow-interviews-howard-dean-about-hcr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/446500","title":{"rendered":"Early Morning Swim: Rachel Maddow Interviews Howard Dean about HCR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class='hitEmbed_none'><object width=\"350\" height=\"211\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/OpXqKKIMUIY&#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\/OpXqKKIMUIY&#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=\"211\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/19\/health\/policy\/19memo.html?hp\">Is the end nigh<\/a>?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class='wbq'>\n<p>In the homestretch of the health care debate, one obvious question being  asked across the capital is whether Speaker <a title=\"More articles about Nancy Pelosi.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/p\/nancy_pelosi\/index.html?inline=nyt-per\">Nancy Pelosi<\/a> will find 216 votes to pass the bill. For a group of particularly  jittery Democrats, the better question may be this: Who will be allowed  to slip away?<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>There are, of course, very few votes to spare. Yet there are some. And  even most Republican leaders concede that the mystery is not so much  whether Democrats will reach the magic number of 216, but rather whose  names will be included as yes votes in the final count.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cEvery vote around here is a heavy lift,\u201d Ms. Pelosi told reporters  Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure it is.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagList\">Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/tag\/early-morning-swim\/\" rel=\"tag\">Early Morning Swim<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/tag\/hcr\/\" rel=\"tag\">HCR<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/tag\/howard-dean\/\" rel=\"tag\">Howard Dean<\/a><\/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=73745&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"Email, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_73745\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"noindex nofollow\">&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is the end nigh? In the homestretch of the health care debate, one obvious question being asked across the capital is whether Speaker Nancy Pelosi will find 216 votes to pass the bill. For a group of particularly jittery Democrats, the better question may be this: Who will be allowed to slip away? [&#8230;] There [&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-446500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446500","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=446500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}