{"id":1501,"date":"2008-12-10T17:05:49","date_gmt":"2008-12-10T22:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yuriar.com\/politics\/?p=5"},"modified":"2008-12-10T17:05:49","modified_gmt":"2008-12-10T22:05:49","slug":"when-will-they-ever-get-the-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/when-will-they-ever-get-the-message\/","title":{"rendered":"When will they ever get the message?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Two key issues remain: Whether to block the auto companies from suing states over their greenhouse gas emission standards and how the bill can ensure taxpayers can get repaid for loans to Chrysler, a privately held company, in the event of a bankruptcy.<\/p>\n<p>Congressional Democrats want to add language that they can reach up to Chrysler&#8217;s holding company, Cerberus Capital Management, if that happens, but the White House is &#8220;pushing back&#8221; according to one Democratic aide.<\/p>\n<p>The talks did resolve two sticking points, however.<\/p>\n<p>One dealt with a provision that any expenditure of more than $25 million by the three automakers would have to have to get prior government approval. That limit has been raised to $100 million to satisfy some Republicans who considered the requirement too burdensome.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ridingtheelephant.blogs.fortune.cnn.com\/2008\/12\/09\/news\/companies\/big3_bailout\/?postversion=2008121007\">Auto bailout bill not yet a done deal &#8211; Dec. 9, 2008<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Did you catch that?  <strong>Republicans<\/strong> thought the spending limit was &#8220;too budensome&#8221; for the automakers.<\/p>\n<p>Ugh.<\/p>\n<p>This is why.  This kind of crap is why I am becoming more and more convinced everyday that the only way to send a message to the idiots who run the Republican party is to disenroll.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two key issues remain: Whether to block the auto companies from suing states over their greenhouse gas emission standards and how the bill can ensure taxpayers can get repaid for &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}