{"id":2729,"date":"2009-12-24T09:00:47","date_gmt":"2009-12-24T14:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=2729"},"modified":"2009-12-24T00:07:23","modified_gmt":"2009-12-24T05:07:23","slug":"its-called-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=2729","title":{"rendered":"Change = Politics as usual"},"content":{"rendered":"

Even as the ObamaCare vote is delivered to us on Christmas Eve, HotAir<\/a> provides a list of the payoffs… payoffs for votes, that is. From Investors.com<\/a>,<\/p>\n

Sen. Mary Landrieu was the new “Louisiana Purchase.” Sen. Ben Nelson got the federal government to pick up his state’s future Medicaid tab. Maybe we should just put Senate votes up on eBay.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Take the time to peruse the entire greedy list<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Understand, though, that this is simply politics as usual<\/strong>, and not the bipartisan change we were promised<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Even as the ObamaCare vote is delivered to us on Christmas Eve, HotAir provides a list of the payoffs… payoffs for votes, that is. From Investors.com, Sen. Mary Landrieu was the new “Louisiana Purchase.” Sen. Ben Nelson got the federal government to pick up his state’s future Medicaid tab. Maybe we should just put Senate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[275,21,26,59],"tags":[391,390,393,80,277,392,395,1043,394],"class_list":["post-2729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healthcare","category-liberal","category-politics","category-rusty","tag-bipartisan","tag-cloture","tag-hope-and-change","tag-obama","tag-obamacare","tag-partisan","tag-pelosi","tag-politics","tag-reid"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t