{"id":23443,"date":"2011-10-12T05:19:53","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T10:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=23443"},"modified":"2011-10-12T06:56:47","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T11:56:47","slug":"no-i-said-pass-this-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=23443","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;No, I Said P<i><b>a<\/b><\/i>ss This Bill&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Obama jobs plan\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/10\/11\/us-usa-jobs-idUSTRE79A4D220111011\">fails in the GOP-controlled Senate<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Senate defeated President Barack Obamas job-creation package on Tuesday in a sign that Washington is likely too paralyzed to take major steps to spur hiring before the 2012 elections.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well,naturally. The Senate is controlled by the GOP. \u00a0What else could happen?<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: \u00a0Oh, silly me. \u00a0I always mix up the House and Senate. \u00a0The Dems control it, right?<\/p>\n<p>(<em>Mitch checks<\/em>) \u00a0Wow. \u00a0Sure enough.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Obama had barnstormed around the country to pressure his Republican opponents to back his top legislative priority, but he did not pick up a single Republican vote in the Democratic-controlled Senate.Two Democrats, facing re-election in conservative states, also voted against the measure.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hm. \u00a0So &#8211; is Washington &#8220;too polarized&#8221;, or are Barack Obama&#8217;s coattails shrinking again?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama jobs plan\u00a0fails in the GOP-controlled Senate: The Senate defeated President Barack Obamas job-creation package on Tuesday in a sign that Washington is likely too paralyzed to take major steps to spur hiring before the 2012 elections. Well,naturally. The Senate is controlled by the GOP. \u00a0What else could happen? UPDATE: \u00a0Oh, silly me. \u00a0I always [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-president-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23443"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23447,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23443\/revisions\/23447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}