{"id":13146,"date":"2012-02-25T16:59:23","date_gmt":"2012-02-25T21:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=13146"},"modified":"2012-02-25T16:59:23","modified_gmt":"2012-02-25T21:59:23","slug":"santorums-senatorial-habits-die-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/13146\/santorums-senatorial-habits-die-hard\/","title":{"rendered":"Santorum&#8217;s Senatorial Habits Die Hard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just days before the pivotal Michigan and Arizona GOP primaries, Rick Santorum lapsed back into long-winded Senator mode when delivering a major speech on his first 100 days as President. \u00a0Although the speech contained plenty of red meat for conservatives &#8211; e.g. repealing Obamacare, cutting spending and regulations, and allowing states to means-test welfare programs &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2012\/02\/25\/santorum-vows-to-cut-regulations-spending-in-first-100-days-if-elected\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fox News<\/a> reports a big mistake:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Santorum&#8217;s speech went past 9 p.m., limiting local news organizations&#8217; ability to highlight his 100-day agenda.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the kind of mishap one wants when running <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/epolls\/2012\/president\/us\/republican_presidential_nomination-1452.html\" target=\"_blank\">neck-and-neck<\/a> with Mitt Romney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just days before the pivotal Michigan and Arizona GOP primaries, Rick Santorum lapsed back into long-winded Senator mode when delivering a major speech on his first 100 days as President. \u00a0Although the speech contained plenty of red meat for conservatives &#8211; e.g. repealing Obamacare, cutting spending and regulations, and allowing states to means-test welfare programs [&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":[2033,846,814,160,1084],"class_list":["post-13146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2033","tag-arizona","tag-michigan","tag-mitt-romney","tag-rick-santorum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13146","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=13146"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13152,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13146\/revisions\/13152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}