{"id":3871,"date":"2010-02-08T19:05:10","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T00:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=3871"},"modified":"2010-02-08T21:34:52","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T02:34:52","slug":"the-top-three-things-a-conservative-majority-in-congress-should-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/08\/the-top-three-things-a-conservative-majority-in-congress-should-do\/","title":{"rendered":"<sup>the top three things a Conservative majority in Congress should do&#8230;<\/sup>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"520\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/images\/palinator.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"382\" height=\"312\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/images\/deficit2010.gif\" \/>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">Who cares if she can&#8217;t remember her lines? The <strong><font color=\"#200020\">mark-out<\/font><\/strong> is the most important thing on her <em>handwritten<\/em> notes. She [or whoever was prompting her] started with <strong><font color=\"#200020\">budget cuts<\/font><\/strong>. I suppose if you&#8217;re a fiscal conservative, that makes sense, though Reagan, Bush I, and Bush II did not do that. Then she marked through <strike><strong><font color=\"#200020\">budget<\/font><\/strong><\/strike> and made it <strong><font color=\"#200020\">tax cuts<\/font><\/strong> instead. Reagan, Bush I, and Bush II did do that [it&#8217;s a great way to buy an election]. The result &#8211; the huge deficits. That&#8217;s what happens when you have <strong><font color=\"#200020\">tax cuts<\/font><\/strong> without <strong><font color=\"#200020\">budget cuts<\/font><\/strong>. It&#8217;s not calculus or differential equations. It&#8217;s basic arithmetic.<\/div>\n<p align=\"center\"><em><strong><font color=\"#200020\">outlays &#8211; receipts = deficit\/surplus<\/font><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">My spirits aren&#8217;t lifted, Sarah&#8230;    <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Who cares if she can&#8217;t remember her lines? The mark-out is the most important thing on her handwritten notes. She [or whoever was prompting her] started with budget cuts. I suppose if you&#8217;re a fiscal conservative, that makes sense, though Reagan, Bush I, and Bush II did not do that. Then she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}