{"id":16126,"date":"2012-10-11T14:37:32","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T18:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=16126"},"modified":"2012-10-11T14:37:32","modified_gmt":"2012-10-11T18:37:32","slug":"new-cato-study-shows-tea-party-governors-delivering-on-promises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/16126\/new-cato-study-shows-tea-party-governors-delivering-on-promises\/","title":{"rendered":"New Cato Study Shows Tea Party Governors Delivering on Promises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cato Institute came out this week with its Fiscal Policy Report Card on America&#8217;s Governors and the results are very good for Tea Partiers. The nation&#8217;s top five chief executives in terms of fiscal stewardship are virtually all proud limited government advocates who have followed through on their promises of reining in government:<\/p>\n<p>1 (tie) &#8212; Sam Brownback (R-Kansas); Rick Scott (R-Florida)<\/p>\n<p>3 (tie) &#8212; Paul LePage (R-Maine); Tom Corbett (R-Pennsylvania)<\/p>\n<p>5 (3-way tie) &#8212; Bobby Jindal (R-Louisiana); Jack Dalrymple (R-North Dakota); John Lynch (D-New Hampshire)<\/p>\n<p>Lynch deserves some credit for being the sole Democrat to crack the top of the list, but not nearly as much as the Republicans who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/new_hampshire\/articles\/2010\/11\/03\/nh_gop_tally_5_sen_almost_300_house_seats\/\" target=\"_blank\">swept to huge majorities<\/a> in the Granite State&#8217;s legislature and forced the governor to abide by New Hampshire&#8217;s &#8220;live free or die&#8221; ethos.<\/p>\n<p>And the nation&#8217;s worst fiscal leaders? Is it any surprise that it&#8217;s a cadre of blue state liberals?:<\/p>\n<p>46. Christine Gregoire (D-Washington)<\/p>\n<p>47. Neil Abercrombie (D-Hawaii)<\/p>\n<p>48. Mark Dayton (D-Minnesota)<\/p>\n<p>49. Dan Malloy (D-Connecticut)<\/p>\n<p>50, Pat Quinn (D-Illinois)<\/p>\n<p>The full report is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cato.org\/publications\/white-paper\/fiscal-policy-report-card-americas-governors-2012\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cato Institute came out this week with its Fiscal Policy Report Card on America&#8217;s Governors and the results are very good for Tea Partiers. The nation&#8217;s top five chief executives in terms of fiscal stewardship are virtually all proud limited government advocates who have followed through on their promises of reining in government: 1 [&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":[1448,3298,627,3875,3877,1697,3874,3639,2843,3876,2705,808,3800,2376,3872,61,71,3873],"class_list":["post-16126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-bobby-jindal","tag-budgets","tag-cato-institute","tag-christine-gregoire","tag-dan-malloy","tag-fiscal-conservatism","tag-jack-dalrymple","tag-john-lynch","tag-mark-dayton","tag-neil-abercrombie","tag-new-hampshire","tag-pat-quinn","tag-paul-lepage","tag-rick-scott","tag-sam-brownback","tag-spending","tag-taxes","tag-tom-corbett"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16126","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=16126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16129,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16126\/revisions\/16129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}