{"id":16783,"date":"2012-12-27T16:07:15","date_gmt":"2012-12-27T21:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=16783"},"modified":"2012-12-27T16:07:15","modified_gmt":"2012-12-27T21:07:15","slug":"cliff-diving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/16783\/cliff-diving\/","title":{"rendered":"Cliff Diving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two weeks ago on the local news in Mobile (the great WKRG), I explained some of the numbers behind the budget. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zsxgD3ihY80&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\">Watch here<\/a>. What I said then still applies. I noted that if Barack Obama only went a little way back towards an apples-to-apples domestic discretionary spending equivalence with what that Scrooge (NOT!) Bill Clinton thought was acceptable, we would be more than $250 billion (over ten years) closer to an agreement, before doing any of a number of other cost-saving measures.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the clip is just about 150 seconds long.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll have more to say on this subject soon; for now, suffice it to say that it is Obama, not Boehner, who is being entirely unreasonable (and irresponsible) in these negotiations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two weeks ago on the local news in Mobile (the great WKRG), I explained some of the numbers behind the budget. Watch here. What I said then still applies. I noted that if Barack Obama only went a little way back towards an apples-to-apples domestic discretionary spending equivalence with what that Scrooge (NOT!) Bill Clinton [&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":[2545,3976,24,3914],"class_list":["post-16783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-boehner","tag-fiscall-clifff","tag-obama","tag-wkrg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16783","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=16783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16784,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16783\/revisions\/16784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}