{"id":12764,"date":"2012-01-23T16:35:40","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T21:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=12764"},"modified":"2012-01-23T16:54:10","modified_gmt":"2012-01-23T21:54:10","slug":"1000-days-without-a-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/12764\/1000-days-without-a-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"1,000 Days Without a Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Believe it or not, that&#8217;s the remarkable reality we&#8217;ll be facing when Barack Obama takes to the podium to deliver his State of the Union address tomorrow night: nearly three years wherein the federal government &#8212; the largest distributor of funds on the planet &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/newsok.com\/in-d.c.-nations-budget-problems-must-be-addressed\/article\/3641993\" target=\"_blank\">has operated without a budget<\/a>. That&#8217;s a failure that deserves widespread public attention. Happily, the GOP &#8212; which usually can be counted on to bobble these kinds of communications opportunities &#8212; is doing a serviceable job of highlighting this ignominious milestone:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/H2r_YevgDj4&amp;feature\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/H2r_YevgDj4&amp;feature\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Believe it or not, that&#8217;s the remarkable reality we&#8217;ll be facing when Barack Obama takes to the podium to deliver his State of the Union address tomorrow night: nearly three years wherein the federal government &#8212; the largest distributor of funds on the planet &#8212; has operated without a budget. That&#8217;s a failure that deserves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[143,3298,81,1416,562,114,391,790],"class_list":["post-12764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-budgets","tag-debt","tag-deficits","tag-economics","tag-federal-budget","tag-federal-spending","tag-house-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12764","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12764"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12769,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12764\/revisions\/12769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}