{"id":24521,"date":"2011-12-13T20:07:33","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T03:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/13\/its-a-lie-but-its-a-useful-lie.html"},"modified":"2011-12-16T05:53:12","modified_gmt":"2011-12-16T12:53:12","slug":"its-a-lie-but-its-a-useful-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/13\/its-a-lie-but-its-a-useful-lie.html","title":{"rendered":"It&#39;s a lie, but it&#39;s a useful lie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And so I am sure we will keep hearing it &#8212; from Romney, or whoever else wins the nomination. #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%2Fthinkprogress.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2011%2F12%2Fromney1212.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:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/economy\/2011\/12\/12\/387762\/romney-regulation-lies\/'>Romney Admitted Stat About Obama Regulations Was A Lie, Keeps Using It Anyway<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOne of the favorite conservative myths of the moment involves the supposed \u201cjob-killing\u201d effects of regulations coming out of the Obama administration. Today, it was evidently 2012 GOP presidential ho&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And so I am sure we will keep hearing it &#8212; from Romney, or whoever else wins the nomination. #ddtb Embedded Link Romney Admitted Stat About Obama Regulations Was A Lie, Keeps Using It Anyway One of the favorite conservative myths of the moment involves the supposed \u201cjob-killing\u201d effects of regulations coming out of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/13\/its-a-lie-but-its-a-useful-lie.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It&#39;s a lie, but it&#39;s a useful lie&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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":"","_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-24521","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":27437,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/17\/a-taxing-claim.html","url_meta":{"origin":24521,"position":0},"title":"A taxing claim","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 17-Apr-12 6:51pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Okay, if you don't want to do it, then stand on (some) principle and don't do it. 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