{"id":8371,"date":"2017-03-03T13:34:52","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T19:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=8371"},"modified":"2017-03-03T13:34:52","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T19:34:52","slug":"a-lovely-change-of-pace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/03\/03\/a-lovely-change-of-pace\/","title":{"rendered":"A Lovely Change Of Pace"},"content":{"rendered":"

This story<\/a> from Sarah Kliff on Vox<\/a><\/strong><\/em> made me chortle, if only because I can also see the Democrats laughing with glee, if behind their hands, as they pursued the rabbit. The rabbit? Why, it’s the lop-eared replacement for the ACA<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n

Democratic House members and Republican senators were not to be included in this process [of reviewing the bill early on]. But by Thursday morning, they decided to take the matter into their own hands.<\/p>\n

The draft legislation was rumored<\/a> to be in H-157, a nondescript meeting room in the House of Representatives. When legislators arrived, Capitol Police were guarding the entrance, and dozens of reporters were waiting outside for the much-anticipated legislation.<\/p>\n

But the first Congress member to arrive \u2014 Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), who appeared to have a mobile printer in tow, perhaps to make copies of the bill \u2014 was promptly denied entry.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re here asking for written copy of this because this should be an open and transparent process,\u201d Paul said after being denied entry into Room H-157. \u201cThis is being presented as if it\u2019s a national secret. As if it\u2019s a plot to invade another country.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

What a wonderful story! As Matt Fuller reports<\/a> on HuffPo<\/strong><\/em> …<\/p>\n

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The top Democrat on the Energy and Commerce Committee, Frank Pallone (D-N.J.), showed up with committee member Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) and began holding court, bashing Republicans for the secrecy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThe speaker has so many times said \u2015 he was, I guess, on Matt Lauer a couple days ago \u2015 he said this whole process was going to be transparent, there were going to be committee hearings, we\u2019re going to get the bill in advance, and, now, you know, from what we\u2019re hearing, they may go to markup on Wednesday,\u201d Pallone said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

Sounds like another example of GOP<\/strong><\/em> leaders going back on their word. Don’t these guys get it? Not only are they laying themselves open for campaign reprisals in a year and a half from the Democrats, they’re also becoming more and more vulnerable to the RINO crowd, Ryan in particular.<\/p>\n

But I’ll bet at least half the Democrats thought it was fun to search for the treasure. I just hope they don’t end up with poo, instead, as many commentators expect from the GOP<\/strong><\/em> replacement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This story from Sarah Kliff on Vox made me chortle, if only because I can also see the Democrats laughing with glee, if behind their hands, as they pursued the rabbit. The rabbit? Why, it’s the lop-eared replacement for the ACA: Democratic House members and Republican senators were not to \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8371"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8373,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8371\/revisions\/8373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}