{"id":14316,"date":"2012-05-24T13:46:25","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T17:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=14316"},"modified":"2012-05-29T11:15:03","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T15:15:03","slug":"alan-simpson-genius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/14316\/alan-simpson-genius\/","title":{"rendered":"Alan Simpson, Genius"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t always agree with former Wyoming Senator Alan Simpson, who has a tendency to <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/blogs\/politics\/2011\/07\/gop-co-chair-of-deficit-commission-decries-inability-of-washington-to-find-common-ground-including-r\/\" target=\"_blank\">embody some of the worst traits<\/a> of the GOP&#8217;s squishy center. That fact makes it doubly delightful when Simpson uses his always-unvarnished style in service of solid principles, as he did in a recent letter responding to a group protesting him in California (warning: there are a few bits of salty language). Here it is in all its glory:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-14318\" title=\"SimpsonLetter\" src=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/SimpsonLetter-789x1024.jpg\" alt=\"SimpsonLetter\" width=\"789\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/SimpsonLetter-789x1024.jpg 789w, https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/SimpsonLetter-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/SimpsonLetter.jpg 845w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 789px) 100vw, 789px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t always agree with former Wyoming Senator Alan Simpson, who has a tendency to embody some of the worst traits of the GOP&#8217;s squishy center. That fact makes it doubly delightful when Simpson uses his always-unvarnished style in service of solid principles, as he did in a recent letter responding to a group protesting [&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":[2053],"class_list":["post-14316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-alan-simpson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14316","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=14316"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14349,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14316\/revisions\/14349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}