{"id":3916,"date":"2010-02-22T14:24:10","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T19:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=3916"},"modified":"2010-02-22T14:24:10","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T19:24:10","slug":"mccain-misled-on-tarp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/3916\/mccain-misled-on-tarp\/","title":{"rendered":"McCain &#8220;Misled&#8221; on TARP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/news\/articles\/2010\/02\/22\/20100222mccain-tarp0222.html\" target=\"_blank\">an interview<\/a> with the editorial board of the <em>Arizona Republic<\/em>, embattled Senator John McCain said that he was \u201cmisled by then-Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke.\u00a0 McCain said the pair assured him that the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program would focus on what was seen as the cause of the financial crisis, the housing meltdown.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s what we thought, too, Senator.\u00a0 But we weren\u2019t in the room.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview with the editorial board of the Arizona Republic, embattled Senator John McCain said that he was \u201cmisled by then-Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke.\u00a0 McCain said the pair assured him that the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program would focus on what was seen as the cause of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[721,183],"class_list":["post-3916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-john-mccain","tag-tarp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3916","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3916"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3918,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3916\/revisions\/3918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}