{"id":8787,"date":"2011-02-25T13:54:16","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T18:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=8787"},"modified":"2011-02-25T13:54:16","modified_gmt":"2011-02-25T18:54:16","slug":"dems-are-wrong-to-think-govt-shutdown-is-a-win-for-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/8787\/dems-are-wrong-to-think-govt-shutdown-is-a-win-for-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Dems Are Wrong to Think Govt. Shutdown is a Win for Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not so fast, says <em>Fox News<\/em> columnist Chris Stirewalt.\u00a0 An important difference between the 1995 shutdown that empowered President Bill Clinton was the lack of public anxiety over the $4.97 trillion debt.\u00a0 Now, it\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2011\/02\/22\/dems-learn-wrong-lessons-15-government-shutdown\/\" target=\"_blank\">$14 trillion<\/a> plus, \u201ca sum equal to the size of our entire economy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If Democrats in Washington make the same miscalculation as Democrats in Wisconsin, they will suffer brutally at the next election.\u00a0 Shutting down the government in favor of public employee unions or unsustainable federal spending is a fool\u2019s strategy.\u00a0 With President Barack Obama and party leaders like Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) daring House Republicans to stand firm on budget cuts, expect to see thousands of pro-shutdown protestors flood Washington if government buildings go dark.<\/p>\n<p>If dormant long enough, perhaps some of those buildings \u2013 and the agencies that house them \u2013 will never be revived.\u00a0 The debt and spending issues are more important now than in 1995.\u00a0 If Democrats fail to realize that, they may help hasten a reduction in government overall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not so fast, says Fox News columnist Chris Stirewalt.\u00a0 An important difference between the 1995 shutdown that empowered President Bill Clinton was the lack of public anxiety over the $4.97 trillion debt.\u00a0 Now, it\u2019s $14 trillion plus, \u201ca sum equal to the size of our entire economy.\u201d If Democrats in Washington make the same miscalculation [&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":[143,501,70,53,2441,59,1685,2440,790,71],"class_list":["post-8787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-bill-clinton","tag-budget","tag-chuck-schumer","tag-cuts","tag-deficit","tag-democrat","tag-government-shutdown","tag-house-republicans","tag-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8787","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=8787"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8790,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8787\/revisions\/8790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}