{"id":52577,"date":"2022-08-13T00:43:09","date_gmt":"2022-08-13T00:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=52577"},"modified":"2022-08-13T00:47:30","modified_gmt":"2022-08-13T00:47:30","slug":"democrats-have-earned-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=52577","title":{"rendered":"Democrats have earned it"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/climate-change.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11167\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/climate-change-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/climate-change-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/climate-change-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/climate-change.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>President Biden is going to get a bill quite soon that won&#8217;t have any Republican votes attached to it. The blunt truth is that I wished for at least a smattering of GOP support from Congress to send the Inflation Reduction Act to the president.<\/p>\n<p>Alas, it didn&#8217;t happen. However, I am going to say loudly and clearly that Democrats in the Senate and the House have done well for those of they represent across the land.<\/p>\n<p>House Democrats today stood together to enact the IRA. It seeks to reduce inflation, seeks to reduce carbon emissions, seeks to reduce the cost of drugs.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans, of course, say it doesn&#8217;t do anything to help us. I will disagree with their bloviating.<\/p>\n<p>The Inflation Reduction Act represents a significant effort to curb climate change. Indeed, it is this nation&#8217;s largest-ever investment to help curb carbon emissions.<\/p>\n<p>I have to ask: Why is that a bad thing?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not a bad thing at all! Republican obstructionists, though, remain bound to their commitment to block anything President Biden and Democrats want to accomplish.<\/p>\n<p>It is to their everlasting shame. Democrats, meanwhile, have earned the nation&#8217;s gratitude. They have, as Joe Biden once declared, produced<em>\u00a0a big fu**ing deal<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Biden is going to get a bill quite soon that won&#8217;t have any Republican votes attached to it. The blunt truth is that I wished for at least a smattering of GOP support from Congress to send the Inflation Reduction Act to the president. Alas, it didn&#8217;t happen. However, I am going to say &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=52577\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Democrats have earned it<\/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":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7910,4,9597],"tags":[862,1027,1941,2505],"class_list":["post-52577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economic-news","category-environmental-news","category-joe-biden","tag-carbon-emissions","tag-climate-change","tag-gop","tag-joe-biden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52578,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52577\/revisions\/52578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}