{"id":15631,"date":"2012-08-27T14:28:39","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T18:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=15631"},"modified":"2012-08-27T14:28:39","modified_gmt":"2012-08-27T18:28:39","slug":"if-then","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/15631\/if-then\/","title":{"rendered":"If&#8230;  Then&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If Barack Obama insists on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/Newsfront\/Obama-blame-congress-jobs\/2012\/06\/16\/id\/442516\" target=\"_blank\">blaming Republicans<\/a> in Congress for today&#8217;s economic malaise or deficits, then shouldn&#8217;t Democrats in Congress be held even more responsible?<\/p>\n<p>Republicans today control just one-half of Congress, whereas Democrats won overwhelming control of both houses of Congress in November 2006.\u00a0 That was fully two years before the financial crisis and recession (Obama&#8217;s all-purpose &#8220;mess we inherited&#8221; alibi), and our deficit stood at a miniscule $161 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Barack Obama insists on blaming Republicans in Congress for today&#8217;s economic malaise or deficits, then shouldn&#8217;t Democrats in Congress be held even more responsible? Republicans today control just one-half of Congress, whereas Democrats won overwhelming control of both houses of Congress in November 2006.\u00a0 That was fully two years before the financial crisis and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3058,59,19,24],"class_list":["post-15631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-blame","tag-deficit","tag-economy","tag-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15631","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15633,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15631\/revisions\/15633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}