{"id":15686,"date":"2012-08-30T15:06:40","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T19:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=15686"},"modified":"2012-08-30T17:17:41","modified_gmt":"2012-08-30T21:17:41","slug":"shoveling-sh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/15686\/shoveling-sh\/","title":{"rendered":"Shoveling Sh**"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now Barry Obama, that clever Irishman (akin to Obrien, Oflaherty and Ogrady; but please, Chris Matthews, don&#8217;t call me an ethnicist for pointing out his heritage, because I never said no Irish need apply), is claiming that <a href=\"http:\/\/tampa.cbslocal.com\/2012\/08\/30\/obama-i-didnt-do-good-enough-job-selling-americans-on-stimulus-plan\/\" target=\"_blank\">he just didn&#8217;t explain<\/a> the stimulus package enough back in 2009:\u00a0\u00a0&#8220;We didn\u2019t have the luxury of six months to explain exactly what we were doing with the Recovery Act, which was basically a jobs act and making-sure-middle-class-families-didn\u2019t-fall-into-poverty act.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Really? Methinks I remember <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/04\/anti-obama-ad-with-strange-animals-is-oddly-effective\/\" target=\"_blank\">all sorts<\/a> of promises about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vPAvjSockt4&amp;feature=related\" target=\"_blank\">shovel-ready jobs<\/a>. And methinks he later acknowledged that the stimulus didn&#8217;t work as intended, because there was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4p4-vPrcDBo\" target=\"_blank\">no such thing<\/a> as &#8220;shovel ready.&#8221; (Actually, that last link was when he joked that the jobs weren&#8217;t shovel-ready; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/8301-503544_162-20019468-503544.html\" target=\"_blank\">here is where he said<\/a> there actually is &#8220;no such thing.)<\/p>\n<p>Obama had plenty of time to sell us his shovel full of something, and then when we didn&#8217;t buy it, he crammed it down our throats. And it wasn&#8217;t really about jobs; it was about cronyism and building the power of big government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now Barry Obama, that clever Irishman (akin to Obrien, Oflaherty and Ogrady; but please, Chris Matthews, don&#8217;t call me an ethnicist for pointing out his heritage, because I never said no Irish need apply), is claiming that he just didn&#8217;t explain the stimulus package enough back in 2009:\u00a0\u00a0&#8220;We didn\u2019t have the luxury of six months [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[24,3795],"class_list":["post-15686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-obama","tag-shovel-ready"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15686","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15686"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15701,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15686\/revisions\/15701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}