{"id":33215,"date":"2025-12-20T10:31:50","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T15:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=33215"},"modified":"2025-12-20T10:32:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T15:32:32","slug":"finally-the-dems-grow-a-spine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=33215","title":{"rendered":"Finally the dems grow a spine&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Well&#8230;finally, the dems in the house with the leadership of Hakeem Jeffries have grown a spine and have figured out ways to sideline the do nothing speaker of the house Johnson&#8230;when Johnson refused to bring a bill to the floor that would extend the ACA subsidies for three more years, Jeffries convince a couple of repubs that it was the right thing to do and he then used a discharge petition to force a floor vote and the measure passed&#8230;and now Jeffries has the method nailed down to just go around Johnson and get work done for the American people&#8230;and it&#8217;s about time&#8230;I have been bitching about this for years, that someone in the dem party needed to step up and stop the idiot trump from running roughshod over our democracy&#8230;and I think this is going to make the blye wave in &#8217;26 into a blue tsunami&#8230;it&#8217;s about time&#8230;geez&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;finally, the dems in the house with the leadership of Hakeem Jeffries have grown a spine and have figured out ways to sideline the do nothing speaker of the house Johnson&#8230;when Johnson refused to bring a bill to the floor that would extend the ACA subsidies for three more years, Jeffries convince a couple of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=33215\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Finally the dems grow a spine&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[4396,4395],"class_list":["post-33215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-discharge-petitions","tag-hakeem-jeffries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33215"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33217,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33215\/revisions\/33217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}