{"id":30002,"date":"2012-08-28T15:23:54","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T21:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/28\/in-debted.html"},"modified":"2012-08-28T15:23:54","modified_gmt":"2012-08-28T21:23:54","slug":"in-debted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/28\/in-debted.html","title":{"rendered":"In-debted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The GOP gets away with pinning the federal debt and deficit on Obama because they cornered the meme on &quot;Republicans cut the debt; Democrats increase it&quot; forty years ago and have simply kept it going through sheer repetition. Facts need not apply.<\/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='https:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fm.static.newsvine.com%2Fservista%2Fimagesizer%3Ffile%3Dsteve-benenC420C302-6655-3656-4CA9-D00AE10B4AA9.jpg%26width%3D500' 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:\/\/maddowblog.msnbc.com\/_news\/2012\/08\/28\/13524271-debt-clock-serves-as-a-memory-test?lite'>Debt clock serves as a memory test<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Republican National Convention&#39;s schedule has been truncated a bit, moving from a four-day affair to a three-day gathering, but there was some action on the convention floor yesterday. As Rachel n&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/b6puEEwVAkV' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The GOP gets away with pinning the federal debt and deficit on Obama because they cornered the meme on &quot;Republicans cut the debt; Democrats increase it&quot; forty years ago and have simply kept it going through sheer repetition. Facts need not apply. Embedded Link Debt clock serves as a memory test The Republican National Convention&#39;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/28\/in-debted.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;In-debted&#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_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":32206,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/15\/public-debt-is-not-credit-card-debt.html","url_meta":{"origin":30002,"position":0},"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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