{"id":5702,"date":"2010-03-21T12:24:22","date_gmt":"2010-03-21T19:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=5702"},"modified":"2010-03-21T12:24:22","modified_gmt":"2010-03-21T19:24:22","slug":"the-history-of-the-demon-pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2010\/03\/21\/the-history-of-the-demon-pass\/","title":{"rendered":"The History of the Demon Pass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is too bad that the &#8220;Demon Pass&#8221; manuever won&#8217;t be implemented for Health Care.\u00c2\u00a0 From what I can tell, it would have produced a better final bill.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, the &#8220;Demon Pass&#8221; has not died yet in the hearts and minds of the Critics.\u00c2\u00a0 Observe this chart.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe it will go down in another day or two?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5701\" title=\"demonpassgraph\" src=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/demonpassgraph-300x180.png\" alt=\"demonpassgraph\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/demonpassgraph-300x180.png 300w, http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/demonpassgraph.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;d think they were extending a fifteen minute over-night voting session until they could wrangle a couple recalcitrant voters, or something.<\/p>\n<p>The thing is the Demon Pass has long been employed as a legislative tool.\u00c2\u00a0 It was first used by Republican Joseph Gurney Cannon near the dawn of the twentieth century.\u00c2\u00a0 He would not let the Minority Party proceed to any point of order until they answered three riddles.\u00c2\u00a0 Sam Rayburn would later add an arbitariness to the difficulty of the three riddles, creating new solutions on the fly and not accepting some standardly accepted answers.\u00c2\u00a0 Newt Gingrich upped the ante by throwing some Democrats into the Fifth Circle of Hades.<\/p>\n<p>If the process has gotten under control, at least nobody&#8217;s promising a Nude Erection anymore.\u00c2\u00a0 Oh wait &#8212; they are.\u00c2\u00a0 Oh well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is too bad that the &#8220;Demon Pass&#8221; manuever won&#8217;t be implemented for Health Care.\u00c2\u00a0 From what I can tell, it would have produced a better final bill. Nonetheless, the &#8220;Demon Pass&#8221; has not died yet in the hearts and minds of the Critics.\u00c2\u00a0 Observe this chart.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe it will go down in another day [&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-5702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5702","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=5702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5703,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5702\/revisions\/5703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}