{"id":765,"date":"2006-10-05T11:57:08","date_gmt":"2006-10-05T16:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=765"},"modified":"2006-12-21T10:17:22","modified_gmt":"2006-12-21T15:17:22","slug":"do-nothing-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=765","title":{"rendered":"Do Nothing Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve read a portion of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ledger-enquirer.com\/mld\/ledgerenquirer\/news\/politics\/15641718.htm\">this story<\/a> on my video thought for the day rather than write a new script. And I thought I was tough on Congress:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Mann and Ornstein say Congress&#8217; Republican leadership has taken traditional abuses of power farther than ever: They bypass committees, cut off floor debate, disallow amendments, force hasty votes on major bills that few have read and sometimes keep 15-minute vote counts open for hours while they browbeat junior members into supporting their position.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Note &#8211; This version is different from the one I read.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve read a portion of this story on my video thought for the day rather than write a new script. And I thought I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}