{"id":24016,"date":"2011-11-24T21:43:26","date_gmt":"2011-11-25T04:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/24\/all-or-nothing-on-the-federal-budget.html"},"modified":"2011-11-25T13:00:15","modified_gmt":"2011-11-25T20:00:15","slug":"all-or-nothing-on-the-federal-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/24\/all-or-nothing-on-the-federal-budget.html","title":{"rendered":"All or Nothing on the federal budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#39;s lovely to speculate that, <i>if<\/i> the Dems win net-net in 2012 the GOP&#39;s super-committee budget intransigence in 2011 will have boomeranged on them.  But there&#39;s a big &quot;if&quot; in that statement. #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.slate.com%2Fcontent%2Fdam%2Fslate%2Fblogs%2Fmoneybox%2F2011%2F11%2F23%2Fgop_intransigence_could_hand_the_left_a_huge_budget_win%2F124164186.jpg.CROP.rectangle-medium.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/moneybox\/2011\/11\/23\/gop_intransigence_could_hand_the_left_a_huge_budget_win.html'>GOP Intransigence Could Hand The Left A Huge Budget Win<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDid The Left Just Win Big On The Budget?\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#39;s lovely to speculate that, if the Dems win net-net in 2012 the GOP&#39;s super-committee budget intransigence in 2011 will have boomeranged on them. But there&#39;s a big &quot;if&quot; in that statement. #ddtb Embedded Link GOP Intransigence Could Hand The Left A Huge Budget Win Did The Left Just Win Big On The Budget?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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":[106,99],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-24016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-elections-2012","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":23953,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/22\/when-you-have-only-one-absolutist-position-its-hard-to-negotiate.html","url_meta":{"origin":24016,"position":0},"title":"When you have only one absolutist position, it&#39;s hard to negotiate","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 22-Nov-11 3:22am","format":false,"excerpt":"A nice timeline of the 2010-2011 budget follies, including the various Grand Suggestions from the Super-Committee.Bottom line (albeit from my PoV), the Dems were more than willing (overly so, in fact) to offer substantial spending cuts, in exchange for modest tax increases. 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And it's been running long\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blogging &amp; Internet&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blogging &amp; Internet","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/keep-calm-and-blog-on.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":27188,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/21\/there-is-a-higher-morality-than-lowering-the-national-debt.html","url_meta":{"origin":24016,"position":4},"title":"There is a higher morality than lowering the national debt","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 21-Mar-12 2:34pm","format":false,"excerpt":"It's also nice to see some of the \"faith leaders\" who don't toe the GOP line getting some press. #ddtb Embedded Link Faith Leaders Blast House GOP Budget As \u2018Immoral Disaster\u2019 That \u2018Robs The Poor\u2019 When House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) released his Medicare-ending, safety net-gutting 2012 budget\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":25771,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/27\/doing-the-math-on-military-budget-cuts.html","url_meta":{"origin":24016,"position":5},"title":"Doing the math on military budget cuts","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 27-Jan-12 4:26pm","format":false,"excerpt":"As noted below, it's near-useless to bandy about simple amounts of proposed defense cuts without putting them in perspective -- unless you're trying to frighten people with the \"billions and billions\" on the chopping block.In other words, $487 billion sounds like a lot (which it is), until you realize it's\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}