{"id":211,"date":"2007-01-22T13:07:08","date_gmt":"2007-01-22T18:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/01\/22\/what-a-difference-an-election-makes\/"},"modified":"2007-01-22T13:07:08","modified_gmt":"2007-01-22T18:07:08","slug":"what-a-difference-an-election-makes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/01\/22\/what-a-difference-an-election-makes\/","title":{"rendered":"What a difference an election makes . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still getting used to not cringing when I hear the voice on the radio start a story with &#8220;The House voted to . . .&#8221; or &#8220;Senate leaders are . . .&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 Been down so long, I&#8217;m still not used to up.<\/p>\n<p>But things most certainly are looking up.\u00c2\u00a0 In just a couple of short weeks, the House has already <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/disp\/story.mpl\/ap\/politics\/4486573.html\">acted to<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>increase the minimum wage<\/li>\n<li>broaden stem cell research<\/li>\n<li>allow government bargaining on Medicare drug prices<\/li>\n<li>cut student loan costs<\/li>\n<li>adopt recommendations from the Sept. 11 Commission and<\/li>\n<li>roll back energy company tax breaks<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And it doesn&#8217;t stop there.\u00c2\u00a0 In the Senate, I&#8217;ve gone from having two Iraq war cheerleaders to <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2007\/01\/22\/warner-iraq-resolution\/\"><strong>two<\/strong> Senators<\/a> who publicly oppose Bush&#8217;s Iraq plans.\u00c2\u00a0 Now, I expect much more than this from my representatives, but this is a damn good start . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still getting used to not cringing when I hear the voice on the radio start a story with &#8220;The House voted to . . .&#8221; or &#8220;Senate leaders are . . .&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 Been down so long, I&#8217;m still not used to up. But things most certainly are looking up.\u00c2\u00a0 In just a couple of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-virginia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}