{"id":412,"date":"2008-09-29T15:00:54","date_gmt":"2008-09-29T20:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=412"},"modified":"2008-09-29T15:00:54","modified_gmt":"2008-09-29T20:00:54","slug":"bailout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=412","title":{"rendered":"Bailout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Politics is a wonderful thing.<\/p>\n<p>The bailout died (for now. They&#8217;ll bring it back, though).<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t heard the Dems react yet, but some Republicans reacted in an interesting way.<\/p>\n<p>1. Blaming the Democrats in general because 95 Democrats voted against the thing (140 or so voted for it).<\/p>\n<p>2. Blaming Pelosi for a partisan speech that pissed Republicans off so much that 133 of them voted against the thing (65 voted for it). [Others are already ridiculing this idea. &#8220;Somebody hurt my feelings, so I&#8217;m going to punish the country.&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>One thing that&#8217;s interesting to me is that everyone agrees that this shouldn&#8217;t be a partisan issue. I don&#8217;t think it was voted as one. If it was voted as a partisan issue, it would have passed, with the Democrats taking the majority.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, many Democrats voted against it and many Republicans voted for it. Non-partisan.<\/p>\n<p>Some <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/capitol-briefing\/2008\/09\/why_the_bailout_bill_failed.html\">interesting thoughts<\/a> on why the billed failed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politics is a wonderful thing. The bailout died (for now. They&#8217;ll bring it back, though). I haven&#8217;t heard the Dems react yet, but some Republicans reacted in an interesting way. 1. Blaming the Democrats in general because 95 Democrats voted against the thing (140 or so voted for it). 2. Blaming Pelosi for a partisan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}