{"id":16060,"date":"2012-10-04T21:57:09","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T01:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=16060"},"modified":"2012-10-04T21:57:09","modified_gmt":"2012-10-05T01:57:09","slug":"biden-trying-to-replace-ryan-on-gop-ticket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/16060\/biden-trying-to-replace-ryan-on-gop-ticket\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Trying to Replace Ryan on GOP Ticket?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If headlines earn a vice presidential candidate\u2019s stripes, then Joe Biden may merit consideration as Mitt Romney\u2019s most effective attack dog.<\/p>\n<p>A few days ago Biden said the middle class has been \u201cburied\u201d during President Barack Obama\u2019s economic stewardship.\u00a0 Today, Obama\u2019s self-immolating Vice President confirmed Mitt Romney\u2019s charge that the Democratic incumbent would <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2012\/10\/04\/biden-acknowledges-obama-want-to-raise-1t-in-taxes-on-wealthy\/\" target=\"_blank\">raise taxes if reelected<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Biden said Romney and other Republicans often say `Obama and Biden want to raise taxes by a trillion dollars.&#8217; Guess what? Yes, we do in one regard: We want to let that trillion dollar tax cut expire so the middle class doesn&#8217;t have to bear the burden of all that money going to the super-wealthy. That&#8217;s not a tax raise. That&#8217;s called fairness where I come from.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s true Biden is gaffe-prone, but these kinds of statements are too true to be unintentional.<\/p>\n<p>Watch yourself, Paul Ryan \u2013 Good Ole\u2019 Joe is gunning for your job!<\/p>\n<p>H\/T: Fox News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If headlines earn a vice presidential candidate\u2019s stripes, then Joe Biden may merit consideration as Mitt Romney\u2019s most effective attack dog. A few days ago Biden said the middle class has been \u201cburied\u201d during President Barack Obama\u2019s economic stewardship.\u00a0 Today, Obama\u2019s self-immolating Vice President confirmed Mitt Romney\u2019s charge that the Democratic incumbent would raise taxes [&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":[2033,143,3325,101,160,802,71,2729],"class_list":["post-16060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2033","tag-barack-obama","tag-gaffe","tag-joe-biden","tag-mitt-romney","tag-paul-ryan","tag-taxes","tag-vice-president"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16060","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=16060"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16064,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16060\/revisions\/16064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}