{"id":3917,"date":"2005-04-07T09:44:47","date_gmt":"2005-04-07T13:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/3917.html"},"modified":"2005-04-07T09:44:47","modified_gmt":"2005-04-07T13:44:47","slug":"baucus-sounds-pretty-definitive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/baucus-sounds-pretty-definitive\/","title":{"rendered":"Baucus sounds pretty definitive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How do Bush&#8217;s odds look for getting the privatization scheme through Congress? Put it this way, one of the chamber&#8217;s most moderate Dems is calling Bush&#8217;s idea &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=10000103&#038;sid=al9kIa4d6sak&#038;refer=us\">dead<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>U.S. Senator Max Baucus, the senior Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, said President George W. Bush&#8217;s proposal to create private Social Security accounts has no chance of passing Congress.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Privatization is dead,&#8221; Baucus, a Montana lawmaker, said on Capitol Hill today. The Bush proposal &#8220;won&#8217;t pass, no way, no how.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And Baucus was one of the Dems the White House thought Bush might be able to win over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do Bush&#8217;s odds look for getting the privatization scheme through Congress? Put it this way, one of the chamber&#8217;s most moderate Dems is calling Bush&#8217;s idea &#8220;dead.&#8221; U.S. Senator Max Baucus, the senior Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, said President George W. Bush&#8217;s proposal to create private Social Security accounts has no chance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}