{"id":971,"date":"2008-05-09T14:59:51","date_gmt":"2008-05-09T22:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/?p=971"},"modified":"2008-05-09T15:05:04","modified_gmt":"2008-05-09T23:05:04","slug":"votes-on-the-supplemental-denied-er-delayed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/2008\/05\/09\/votes-on-the-supplemental-denied-er-delayed\/","title":{"rendered":"Votes on the Supplemental &#8211; DENIED! (er &#8230; DELAYED!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The controversial Democratic House strategy for pushing the Iraq War Supplemental through the House and into the Senate has failed for now [1], partly owing to Republican protest but also a &#8220;revolt&#8221; of Blue-Dog Democrats, more moderate Democrats who opposed the strategy and some of the extra funding proposals. Sounds like we shouldn&#8217;t expect action on this until mid-month. I think this is a good thing &#8211; time to lay out more options to compromise and get a more bi-partisan consensus on how to move forward.<\/p>\n<p>Well, one can dream.<\/p>\n<p>Want to learn more about what the Senate is trying to add to the Supplemental? Try this reference [2].<\/p>\n<p>[1] <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaisernetwork.org\/daily_reports\/rep_index.cfm?DR_ID=52050\">http:\/\/www.kaisernetwork.org\/daily_reports\/rep_index.cfm?DR_ID=52050<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[2] <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceref.com\/news\/viewpr.html?pid=25411\">http:\/\/www.spaceref.com\/news\/viewpr.html?pid=25411<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The controversial Democratic House strategy for pushing the Iraq War Supplemental through the House and into the Senate has failed for now [1], partly owing to Republican protest but also a &#8220;revolt&#8221; of Blue-Dog Democrats, more moderate Democrats who opposed the strategy and some of the extra funding proposals. Sounds like we shouldn&#8217;t expect action [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-971","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-politics","7":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}