{"id":3581,"date":"2010-02-05T16:02:58","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T21:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=3581"},"modified":"2010-02-05T16:03:04","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T21:03:04","slug":"shameful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=3581","title":{"rendered":"Shameful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"clear: both\">One wonders how much of <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2010\/02\/report-shelby-blocks-all-obama-nominations-in-the-senate-over-al-earmarks.php?ref=fpa\">this<\/a> the supine Democratic Senate leaders expect those of us who pony up the campaign money to take:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"clear: both\">\n<p>Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) has put an extraordinary &#8220;blanket hold&#8221; on at least 70 nominations President Obama has sent to the Senate, according to multiple reports this evening. The hold means no nominations can move forward unless Senate Democrats can secure a 60-member cloture vote to break it, or until Shelby lifts the hold.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"clear: both\">Shelby is trying to extort Obama into throwing money at his state for the earmarks Republicans are supposed to hate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: both\">What I find mystifying (no, I really don&#8217;t find it mystifying) is that these Republican holds seem to have a vise like grip, while Reid never seems to have a problem giving the back of his hand to a hold from his own caucus. What I actually do find mystifying is the idea that there could possibly be an actual rule allowing such a hold, and if it&#8217;s only a custom, why on earth Reid and the rest would put up with this constant abuse.<\/p>\n<p><br class=\"final-break\" style=\"clear: both\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One wonders how much of this the supine Democratic Senate leaders expect those of us who pony up the campaign money to take: Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) has put an extraordinary &#8220;blanket hold&#8221; on at least 70 nominations President Obama has sent to the Senate, according to multiple reports this evening. The hold means no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3582,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3581\/revisions\/3582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}