{"id":16619,"date":"2012-12-01T08:29:30","date_gmt":"2012-12-01T13:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=16619"},"modified":"2012-12-01T08:29:30","modified_gmt":"2012-12-01T13:29:30","slug":"gingrich-there-is-no-fiscal-cliff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/16619\/gingrich-there-is-no-fiscal-cliff\/","title":{"rendered":"Gingrich: There is No Fiscal Cliff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mad.ly\/250153?pact=12996699953&amp;fe=1\" target=\"_blank\">Newt Gingrich<\/a> nails the messaging misdirection being pushed by the fiscal cliff talk dominating Washington, D.C., right now:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Left, both the politicians and the news media, have created a mythical threat which can only be solved by Republicans surrendering their principles and abandoning their allies.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the fiscal cliff is entirely a manufactured threat.<\/p>\n<p>The same people who are now negotiating worked two years ago to create the mess which they say is such a threat.<\/p>\n<p>At any point they wanted to, the President and the Congress could reduce the &#8220;cliff&#8221; to a series of foothills by breaking the problem into ten or twenty component parts.<\/p>\n<p>They could then focus on solving each problem on its own merits and out in the open with public hearings, public understanding and public involvement.<\/p>\n<p>Public understanding, however, would limit the level of waste, favoritism, and special interests which could be funded.<\/p>\n<p>That is exactly the opposite of what the Washington establishment wants.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Which is why the political process is so broken in our nation\u2019s capitol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newt Gingrich nails the messaging misdirection being pushed by the fiscal cliff talk dominating Washington, D.C., right now: The Left, both the politicians and the news media, have created a mythical threat which can only be solved by Republicans surrendering their principles and abandoning their allies. Yet the fiscal cliff is entirely a manufactured threat. [&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":[1008,3625,869,1007],"class_list":["post-16619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-d-c","tag-fiscal-cliff","tag-newt-gingrich","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16619","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=16619"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16626,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16619\/revisions\/16626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}