{"id":1538,"date":"2001-12-13T15:42:40","date_gmt":"2001-12-13T20:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=1538"},"modified":"2001-12-13T15:42:40","modified_gmt":"2001-12-13T20:42:40","slug":"how_dare_it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/12\/13\/how_dare_it.html","title":{"rendered":"How dare it!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Headline from SatireWire<\/a>:<\/p>\n

CONGRESS FORBIDS ECONOMY TO RECOVER
\nUNTIL CONGRESS PASSES BILL TO HELP ECONOMY RECOVER
\nPartisan Bickering Temporarily Halted to Fend Off Common Threat <\/p>\n

Read the rest. Please.<\/p>\n

(Via InstaPundit<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Headline from SatireWire: CONGRESS FORBIDS ECONOMY TO RECOVER UNTIL CONGRESS PASSES BILL TO HELP ECONOMY RECOVER Partisan Bickering Temporarily Halted to Fend Off Common Threat Read the rest. Please. (Via…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":131671,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/28\/our-remarkably-low-expectations-for-the-us-congress.html","url_meta":{"origin":1538,"position":0},"title":"Our Remarkably Low Expectations for the US Congress","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 28-Sep-16 10:33pm","format":false,"excerpt":"It says something about the dysfunction in Washington, DC (largely the fault of the Republicans, in my opinion, but I digress) that it's actual headline news when they manage to pass a budget to keep the government from shutting down.(It also says something when news that federal funding to fight\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":32206,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/15\/public-debt-is-not-credit-card-debt.html","url_meta":{"origin":1538,"position":1},"title":"Public Debt Is Not Credit Card Debt","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 15-Jan-13 7:23am","format":false,"excerpt":"Paying off our debt is easily done, if\/when\u00a0the economy pulls out of the tank. \u00a0Want to know what impacts our credit (and, thus, our ability to recover)? 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