{"id":39177,"date":"2013-10-10T16:23:31","date_gmt":"2013-10-10T22:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/10\/gop-hardliners-graciously-kick-the-can-down-the-road-a-few-weeks.html"},"modified":"2013-10-10T16:23:31","modified_gmt":"2013-10-10T22:23:31","slug":"gop-hardliners-graciously-kick-the-can-down-the-road-a-few-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/10\/gop-hardliners-graciously-kick-the-can-down-the-road-a-few-weeks.html","title":{"rendered":"GOP Hardliners graciously kick the can down the road a few weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"
I can't wait to hear how this is touted as "compromise" by pundits on the Right. "We've promised not to shoot this one particular hostage for another twenty-four hours. We've very reasonable. Now, what are you going to give us in return?"<\/p>\n

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Hurray! The apocalyptic crisis of basic governance is over! That leaves the catastrophic<\/i> crisis of basic governance!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Conservatives Clear The Way For Boehner’s Six-Week Debt Limit Hike<\/a>
\n The conservative wing that has led Republicans into a government shutdown and to the brink of default has given its blessing to Speaker John Boehner’s (R-OH) proposal unveiled Thursday to lift the debt ceiling for six weeks.Arch-conservative lawmakers like Sen. Ted Cruz (R-OH) and Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) quickly backed the plan. Outside groups like Heritage Action and activist Erick Erickson of RedState said they wouldn’t go after Republican…\n <\/p>\n

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I can't wait to hear how this is touted as "compromise" by pundits on the Right. "We've promised not to shoot this one particular hostage for another twenty-four hours. We've very reasonable. Now, what are you going to give us in return?" Reshared post from +Andreas Schou Hurray! The apocalyptic crisis of basic governance is … Continue reading “GOP Hardliners graciously kick the can down the road a few weeks”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39177","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":26245,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/09\/the-war-on-good-governance-continues.html","url_meta":{"origin":39177,"position":0},"title":"The War on Good Governance continues","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 9-Feb-12 2:37pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Another day, another four nominees slow-walked. 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