{"id":5682,"date":"2010-03-17T17:43:57","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T00:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=5682"},"modified":"2010-03-17T17:43:57","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T00:43:57","slug":"the-this-bill-but-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2010\/03\/17\/the-this-bill-but-process\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;This Bill But&#8221; Process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Anyone who endorses this strategy will be forever remembered for trying to claim they didn&#8217;t vote for something they did.\u00c2\u00a0 It will go down as one of the most extraordinary legislative sleights of hand in history.&#8221; &#8212; Mitch McConnell.<\/p>\n<p>Such is the manner Mr. McConnell characterizes the &#8220;Self Exeuting Rule&#8221;, the rule in which the House is seeking to pass the <span id=\"lw_1268872977_1\">Senate Health Care Plan<\/span> &#8212; without passing such measures as, oh, the Big bad oh so evil package for Nebraska and <span id=\"lw_1268872977_2\">Senator Ben Nelson<\/span>.\u00c2\u00a0 A few steps down the process, the Senate will get to vote again &#8212; stripped of, for instance, the bad <span id=\"lw_1268872977_3\">little Ben Nelson<\/span> vote getter &#8212; for the vote count that had it been allowed would have kept our sanity in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>51.\u00c2\u00a0 Or, actually 50 and faithful <span id=\"lw_1268872977_4\">Joe Biden<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>McConnell is not correct.\u00c2\u00a0 To be correct, his statement would have to be tied to these measures, such as Ben Nelson&#8217;s Nebraska pork item, becoming the <span id=\"lw_1268872977_5\">law of the land<\/span>.\u00c2\u00a0 Or, they&#8217;re voting for a &#8220;this bill but&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure there is a hyperbolic way to characterize this process, but this isn&#8217;t yet it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Anyone who endorses this strategy will be forever remembered for trying to claim they didn&#8217;t vote for something they did.\u00c2\u00a0 It will go down as one of the most extraordinary legislative sleights of hand in history.&#8221; &#8212; Mitch McConnell. Such is the manner Mr. McConnell characterizes the &#8220;Self Exeuting Rule&#8221;, the rule in which the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5683,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5682\/revisions\/5683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}