{"id":7943,"date":"2010-12-07T23:37:22","date_gmt":"2010-12-08T04:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=7943"},"modified":"2010-12-08T10:11:59","modified_gmt":"2010-12-08T15:11:59","slug":"obamas-tax-defense-includes-little-noticed-national-security-gaffe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/7943\/obamas-tax-defense-includes-little-noticed-national-security-gaffe\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama&#8217;s Tax Defense Includes Little-Noticed National Security Gaffe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From President Obama&#8217;s remarks earlier today defending his deal with Congressional Republicans to prevent tax increases:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I\u2019ve said before that I felt that the middle-class tax cuts were being held hostage to the high-end tax cuts. <strong>I think it\u2019s tempting not to negotiate with hostage-takers, unless the hostage gets harmed<\/strong>. Then people will question the wisdom of that strategy. In this case, the hostage was the American people, and I was not willing to see them get harmed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not quite &#8220;we refuse to negotiate with terrorists.&#8221; Let&#8217;s hope the press conference wasn&#8217;t airing on Al-Jazeera.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From President Obama&#8217;s remarks earlier today defending his deal with Congressional Republicans to prevent tax increases: I\u2019ve said before that I felt that the middle-class tax cuts were being held hostage to the high-end tax cuts. I think it\u2019s tempting not to negotiate with hostage-takers, unless the hostage gets harmed. Then people will question the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2145,143,1646,562,731,536],"class_list":["post-7943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-al-jazeera","tag-barack-obama","tag-bush-tax-cuts","tag-economics","tag-national-security","tag-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7943","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7943"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7946,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7943\/revisions\/7946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}