{"id":7996,"date":"2010-12-10T18:00:30","date_gmt":"2010-12-10T23:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=7996"},"modified":"2010-12-11T07:45:17","modified_gmt":"2010-12-11T12:45:17","slug":"it-must-be-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/7996\/it-must-be-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"It Must Be Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who knew that a week beginning with liberal howling about President Barack Obama\u2019s \u201ctax deal\u201d with congressional Republicans would end with bitter disagreements between conservative stalwarts about whether the deal is actually good?\u00a0 Charles Krauthammer thinks it\u2019s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/12\/09\/AR2010120904472.html?hpid=opinionsbox1\" target=\"_blank\">biggest Keynesian stimulus in American history<\/a>.\u00a0 Jonah Goldberg <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/255008\/dr-ks-swindle-jonah-goldberg\" target=\"_blank\">disagrees<\/a>.\u00a0 So does Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), arguing that <a href=\"http:\/\/politics.usnews.com\/opinion\/blogs\/mary-kate-cary\/2010\/12\/10\/paul-ryan-conservatives-should-support-the-obama-tax-deal \" target=\"_blank\">pro-growth tax policy is the key first step<\/a> towards jumpstarting the economy (spending cuts are next).<\/p>\n<p>For his part, President Obama prefers to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2010\/12\/10\/obama_ditches_tax_cut_presser_after_bill_clinton_takes_control.html \" target=\"_blank\">outsource his public communications duties<\/a> to predecessor Bill Clinton.\u00a0 After Clinton started taking questions at a joint press conference, Obama excused himself to attend the White House Christmas party; as if the sight of him leaving Clinton to speak on behalf of the administration didn\u2019t matter.\u00a0 Either Obama doesn\u2019t care that he looked like the impatient junior partner to Clinton\u2019s elder, me-first statesman, or he failed to appreciate the optics of his televised abdication.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, we can chalk up all this confusion to it being a Friday at the end of a long congressional session.\u00a0 Otherwise&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who knew that a week beginning with liberal howling about President Barack Obama\u2019s \u201ctax deal\u201d with congressional Republicans would end with bitter disagreements between conservative stalwarts about whether the deal is actually good?\u00a0 Charles Krauthammer thinks it\u2019s the biggest Keynesian stimulus in American history.\u00a0 Jonah Goldberg disagrees.\u00a0 So does Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), arguing that [&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":[143,501,1986,333,802],"class_list":["post-7996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-bill-clinton","tag-charles-krauthammer","tag-jonah-goldberg","tag-paul-ryan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7996","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=7996"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8000,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7996\/revisions\/8000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}