{"id":2477,"date":"2010-06-11T06:43:53","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T11:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/65.175.102.14\/?p=2477"},"modified":"2013-06-30T18:49:30","modified_gmt":"2013-06-30T23:49:30","slug":"wielding-all-that-clout-and-seniority-conrad-and-dorgan-vote-the-democrat-party-line-against-north-dakota-interests-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=2477","title":{"rendered":"Wielding all that &#8220;clout and seniority,&#8221; Conrad and Dorgan vote the Democrat party line against North Dakota interests (AGAIN)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/dragline_sunset_23611.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"220\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>Those wacky North Dakota Democrats&#8230;they&#8217;ve gone and done it again. They postured themselves in the media as being for the Murkowski Amendment (<a href=\"http:\/\/frwebgate.access.gpo.gov\/cgi-bin\/getdoc.cgi?dbname=111_cong_bills&amp;docid=f:sj26pcs.txt.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">PDF here<\/a>), which would restrict the EPA from heavy-handedly going after any industry they felt generated too much carbon dioxide. In other words, North Dakota&#8217;s burgeoning energy industry.<\/p>\n<p>This is &#8220;health care reform&#8221; all over again. They make sure they&#8217;re on TV, radio, and newspaper pages indicating that they&#8217;ll vote against something North Dakotans don&#8217;t want. Then they whisk themselves back to Washington, remove the plaid shirts, and vote whichever way the national Democrat Party wants them to.<\/p>\n<p>Once again, you can view the Murkowski Amendment <a href=\"http:\/\/frwebgate.access.gpo.gov\/cgi-bin\/getdoc.cgi?dbname=111_cong_bills&amp;docid=f:sj26pcs.txt.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here (PDF)<\/a>. For the vote tally, <a href=\"http:\/\/senate.gov\/legislative\/LIS\/roll_call_lists\/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=111&amp;session=2&amp;vote=00184\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>How much do you want to bet you won&#8217;t see accurate mention of this on KFYR, KXMB, WDAY&#8230;or in any of the Forum newspapers or the Bismarck Tribune?<\/p>\n<p>Rob Port over at Say Anything tipped me to <a href=\"http:\/\/trueslant.com\/jeffmcmahon\/2010\/06\/10\/murkowski-resolution-epa-six-democrats\/\" target=\"_blank\">this article which describes Dorgan as &#8220;liberated by his pending retirement&#8230;&#8221;<\/a> which was my biggest fear after hearing of his decision not to run again. He basically has a license to do what he&#8217;s always done (vote as a liberal Democrat) with no repercussions. It looks like he&#8217;s going to end his too-long political career by going out with a liberal bang.<\/p>\n<p>How&#8217;s that Hope\u2122 and Change\u2122 working out for everybody? When North Dakota&#8217;s energy industry gets flattened by government regulation and we join the long list of states in economic woe, thank everyone who voted Democrat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those wacky North Dakota Democrats&#8230;they&#8217;ve gone and done it again. They postured themselves in the media as being for the Murkowski Amendment (PDF here), which would restrict the EPA from heavy-handedly going after any industry they felt generated too much &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=2477\">Continue reading <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":[7,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energytechnology","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2478,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477\/revisions\/2478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}