{"id":12003,"date":"2009-06-26T07:23:35","date_gmt":"2009-06-26T12:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=12003"},"modified":"2009-06-26T07:23:35","modified_gmt":"2009-06-26T12:23:35","slug":"down-to-the-wire-on-cap-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=12003","title":{"rendered":"Down to the wire on Cap &#038; Tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=11979\">I wrote yesterday<\/a> that the Democrats were trying to bypass committees and votes to get Cap and Tax passed today. They obviously didn&#8217;t think the Gigante Obama Show last night would help them much and according to <a href=\"http:\/\/newsbusters.org\/blogs\/warner-todd-huston\/2009\/06\/26\/abc-obama-healthcare-special-not-so-special-ratings-game\">Newsbusters<\/a>&#8216; Warner Todd Huston, they were right;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>ABC&#8217;s Barackspactacular Healthcare Extravaganza (I think that was the official name of the show, wasn&#8217;t it?) went up against the NBC premiere of &#8220;The Philanthropist,&#8221; widely panned as disappointing, and a repeat of &#8220;CSI: NY&#8221; on CBS, widely seen as already once widely seen. Unfortunately for ABC, its prop&#8221;O&#8221;ganda special got a dismal 1.2 rating to the 2.0 and 1.8 ratings respectively for the entertainment competition.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently the TV show where he&#8217;s president but plays a doctor on TV didn&#8217;t go over well. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> So, the Democrats are panicky according to Erick Erickson at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redstate.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/26\/morning-briefing-for-june-26-2009\/\">Redstate<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There is only one thing you need to know: the Democrats had an emergency meeting last night and will be meeting again this morning because they have not yet rounded up all the votes to pass their anti-growth Cap and Trade legislation.<\/p>\n<p>They are very close.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Erickson links to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redstate.com\/erick\/2009\/06\/25\/target-these-representatives-today-for-calling\/\">Democrats<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redstate.com\/erick\/2009\/06\/25\/add-these-republicans-to-the-cap-trade-phone-calls\/\">Republicans<\/a> that haven&#8217;t quite made up their minds and need some convincing from you guys &#8211; especially if you live in their districts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote yesterday that the Democrats were trying to bypass committees and votes to get Cap &hellip; <a title=\"Down to the wire on Cap &#038; Tax\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=12003\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Down to the wire on Cap &#038; Tax<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-economy","category-liberals-suck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}