{"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":"<p>Even as the ObamaCare vote is delivered to us on Christmas Eve, <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2009\/12\/22\/the-list-of-payoffs-that-got-reid-his-cloture-vote\/\" target=\"_blank\">HotAir<\/a> provides a list of the payoffs&#8230; payoffs for votes, that is. From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.investors.com\/NewsAndAnalysis\/Article.aspx?id=515933&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+EditorialRss+%28Editorial+RSS%29\" target=\"_blank\">Investors.com<\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sen. Mary Landrieu was the new &#8220;Louisiana Purchase.&#8221; Sen. Ben Nelson got the federal government to pick up his state&#8217;s future Medicaid tab. Maybe we should just put Senate votes up on eBay.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Take the time to peruse the entire <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2009\/12\/22\/the-list-of-payoffs-that-got-reid-his-cloture-vote\/\" target=\"_blank\">greedy list<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Understand, though, that this is simply politics <strong>as usual<\/strong>, and not the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ONM7148cTyc\" target=\"_blank\">bipartisan change we were promised<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even as the ObamaCare vote is delivered to us on Christmas Eve, HotAir provides a list of the payoffs&#8230; payoffs for votes, that is. From Investors.com, Sen. Mary Landrieu was the new &#8220;Louisiana Purchase.&#8221; Sen. Ben Nelson got the federal government to pick up his state&#8217;s future Medicaid tab. Maybe we should just put Senate [&hellip;]<\/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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}