{"id":1064,"date":"2010-03-24T23:44:26","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T03:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?p=1064"},"modified":"2010-03-24T23:44:26","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T03:44:26","slug":"month-3-day-25-uh-oh-somebodys-having-a-meltdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/month-3-day-25-uh-oh-somebodys-having-a-meltdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Month 3, Day 25: Uh, Oh! Somebody&#8217;s Having A Meltdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Globe had an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bostonglobe\/editorial_opinion\/editorials\/articles\/2010\/03\/23\/after_landmark_health_vote_a_thorny_new_phase_of_reform\/\">editorial<\/a> on Tuesday pointing out the difficulties that lie ahead for any Democratic policy initiative.  As editorials go, it was nothing special&#8230;but it provided me with a hook for today&#8217;s letter, a rehash of yesterday&#8217;s shot off the Herald&#8217;s bow.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As the Senate moves to voting on the reconciliation fix for health care legislation, the GOP has fixed on a political strategy of total non-cooperation.  What does this mean for future policy-making?  Well, Lindsey Graham has been working on climate legislation with Senators Kerry and Lieberman, but it seems likely he&#8217;s going to take his ball and go home, because his pique at a Democratic success outweighs any sense of obligation to the long-term health of the planet.<\/p>\n<p>That our governance is immobilized by the GOP&#8217;s grade-school tantrums is deplorable.  That climate legislation may be held hostage by their passive-aggressive tactics is inexcusable.<\/p>\n<p>Warren Senders\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Globe had an editorial on Tuesday pointing out the difficulties that lie ahead for any Democratic policy initiative. As editorials go, it was nothing special&#8230;but it provided me with a hook for today&#8217;s letter, a rehash of yesterday&#8217;s shot off the Herald&#8217;s bow. As the Senate moves to voting on the reconciliation fix [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,44],"tags":[347,207,366],"class_list":["post-1064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-politics","tag-boston-globe","tag-idiots","tag-senate-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1064"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1066,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions\/1066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}