{"id":16423,"date":"2012-11-06T20:36:33","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T01:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=16423"},"modified":"2012-11-06T20:36:33","modified_gmt":"2012-11-07T01:36:33","slug":"lame-duck-flapping-its-wings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/16423\/lame-duck-flapping-its-wings\/","title":{"rendered":"Lame Duck Flapping Its Wings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like I said <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/54-state-of-affairs\/1637-lame-duck-will-be-very-active\" target=\"_blank\">last week<\/a>, the lame duck Congress will be <a href=\"http:\/\/firstread.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2012\/11\/06\/14974172-gop-leaders-draw-line-on-taxes-ahead-of-election-results?lite\" target=\"_blank\">very active<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Confident that Republicans would retain their majority in the House, Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, told POLITICO that GOP lawmakers would reject any new taxes on households in the highest income tax bracket.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019re not raising taxes on small-business people,&#8221; Boehner said. &#8220;Our majority is going to get re-elected &#8230; We\u2019ll have as much of a mandate as he will \u2014 if that happens \u2014 to not raise taxes.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That anti-tax mandate would be shared by the White House if Mitt Romney wins tonight, of course.<\/p>\n<p>H\/T: NBC News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like I said last week, the lame duck Congress will be very active: Confident that Republicans would retain their majority in the House, Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, told POLITICO that GOP lawmakers would reject any new taxes on households in the highest income tax bracket. &#8220;We\u2019re not raising taxes on small-business people,&#8221; Boehner said. &#8220;Our [&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":[2033,143,84,1057,2075,160,71],"class_list":["post-16423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2033","tag-barack-obama","tag-congress","tag-john-boehner","tag-lame-duck","tag-mitt-romney","tag-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16423","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=16423"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16426,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16423\/revisions\/16426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}