{"id":4486,"date":"2010-03-27T18:50:06","date_gmt":"2010-03-27T23:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=4486"},"modified":"2010-03-27T20:39:45","modified_gmt":"2010-03-28T01:39:45","slug":"obama-tempting-gop-to-shut-down-the-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/4486\/obama-tempting-gop-to-shut-down-the-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Tempting GOP to Shut Down the Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The question <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/54-state-of-affairs\/508-will-president-obama-make-recess-appointments\" target=\"_blank\">whether President Barack Obama<\/a> would make recess appointments over Republican objections has now been answered.<\/p>\n<p>So, who needs Congress?\u00a0 With President Obama issuing an <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/44\/2010\/03\/white-house-announces-executiv.html?wprss=44\" target=\"_blank\">executive order <\/a>purporting to make law, and filling administrative vacancies through <a href=\"http:\/\/apnews.myway.com\/article\/20100327\/D9EN7A9O0.html \" target=\"_blank\">recess appointments<\/a>, is there really a need for the legislative branch?\u00a0 After a month where it became evident that the Obama Administration sees Congress as a bifurcated procedural process, it won\u2019t be too surprising if after Republicans gain a majority the White House refuses to acknowledge the legislature\u2019s presence.\u00a0 If that happens, we may be headed for a government shut-down early next year when the GOP turns off the financial spigot.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The question whether President Barack Obama would make recess appointments over Republican objections has now been answered. So, who needs Congress?\u00a0 With President Obama issuing an executive order purporting to make law, and filling administrative vacancies through recess appointments, is there really a need for the legislative branch?\u00a0 After a month where it became evident [&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":[143,84,874,1018],"class_list":["post-4486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-congress","tag-executive-order","tag-recess-appointment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4486","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=4486"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4488,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4486\/revisions\/4488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}