{"id":691,"date":"2010-03-11T08:12:56","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T14:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=691"},"modified":"2010-03-11T08:12:56","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T14:12:56","slug":"i-thought-willing-suspension-of-disbelief-was-for-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=691","title":{"rendered":"I thought &#8220;willing suspension of disbelief&#8221; was for fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First, <a href=\"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=442\">Pelosi claimed that Congress would be more bipartisan if the Democrats were given a larger majority<\/a>. Then, <a href=\"http:\/\/ponderingpenguin.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/obama-shuts-out-republican-input-on.html\">no Republican input was allowed<\/a> into the health care reform bills. Following that, Pelosi claimed that a bill could be <a href=\"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=687\">bipartisan without any Republican votes<\/a>. Next, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dailymail.com\/donsurber\/archives\/10427\/\">she claimed that they had to pass the bill <em>in order for us to find out what was in it<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And now, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/blogs\/beltway-confidential\/House-Democrats-looking-at-Slaughter-Solution-to-pass-Obamacare-without-a-vote-on-Senate-bill-87267402.html\">Louise Slaughter<\/a> is proposing that the Democrats &#8220;gimmick&#8221; things in order to <a href=\"http:\/\/corner.nationalreview.com\/post\/?q=OWE1Zjk4MjlkNDAyOGI4ZGNmMzNiYzYyMzI5ZDc0YmQ=\">pass the health care reform bill without ever actually voting on it<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, Pelosi claimed that Congress would be more bipartisan if the Democrats were given a larger majority. Then, no Republican input was allowed into the health care reform bills. Following [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}