{"id":10100,"date":"2011-06-13T19:32:56","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T23:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=10100"},"modified":"2011-06-13T19:32:56","modified_gmt":"2011-06-13T23:32:56","slug":"%e2%80%98major-problem%e2%80%99-for-dems-being-serious-about-the-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/10100\/%e2%80%98major-problem%e2%80%99-for-dems-being-serious-about-the-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Major Problem\u2019 for Dems being Serious about the Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former DNC Chairman Tim Kaine (D-VA) is having to face reality and run from his party in hi quest to be the next U.S. Senator from Virginia.\u00a0 Kaine, a former governor, agreed during an interview that the Democratic-controlled Senate\u2019s complete failure to pass a budget for over a year is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2011\/06\/13\/kaine_major_problem_senate_dems_havent_passed_a_budget.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cmajor problem\u201d<\/a> for the party.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also a major problem for candidates like Kaine trying to convince voters that the party of profligate spending, special favors for unions and \u2013 yes \u2013 crony capitalism \u2013 is serious about fiscal matters when it can\u2019t muster the courage to pass a budget.\u00a0 The failure to pass a budget is to fail at the most basic aspect of governing.\u00a0 Either Senate Democrats need to get serious about passing a budget \u2013 and the debate that goes with it \u2013 or they should adjourn until further notice.\u00a0 At least that would save taxpayers money for keeping a spate of non-working buildings running.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former DNC Chairman Tim Kaine (D-VA) is having to face reality and run from his party in hi quest to be the next U.S. Senator from Virginia.\u00a0 Kaine, a former governor, agreed during an interview that the Democratic-controlled Senate\u2019s complete failure to pass a budget for over a year is a \u201cmajor problem\u201d for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[841,70,646,2009,2783,704],"class_list":["post-10100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2012-elections","tag-budget","tag-democratic-party","tag-tim-kaine","tag-united-states-senate","tag-virginia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10100"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10102,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10100\/revisions\/10102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}