{"id":9095,"date":"2011-03-31T17:41:55","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T21:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=9095"},"modified":"2011-03-31T17:41:55","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T21:41:55","slug":"tea-party%e2%80%99s-lesson-from-budget-fight-go-bigger-next-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/9095\/tea-party%e2%80%99s-lesson-from-budget-fight-go-bigger-next-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Tea Party\u2019s Lesson from Budget Fight: Go Bigger Next Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2011-03-31\/tea-party-rally-to-pressure-house-republicans-on-budget-talks.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Bloomberg<\/em> reports<\/a> that the rumored $33 billion in cuts being negotiated by House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) is looking like the key number both sides are working towards.\u00a0 For perspective, that\u2019s $28 billion less than the House of Representatives passed a few weeks ago, and $67 billion less than Republicans promised during last year\u2019s mid-term elections.<\/p>\n<p>When the $61 billion cut was passed, Tea Party-backed legislators accepted the reduction under the assumption that half a loaf is better than nothing at all.\u00a0 Now, the loaf is down to a third, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/8301-503544_162-20049407-503544.html\" target=\"_blank\">activists are having none of it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever sum gets approved, it\u2019s a sure bet the Tea Party and the members of Congress friendly to it won\u2019t forget the importance of starting the cut threshold even higher next time.\u00a0 At this rate, don\u2019t be surprised if the 2012 battle cry is, \u201c$500 Billion in Cuts or Fight!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg reports that the rumored $33 billion in cuts being negotiated by House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) is looking like the key number both sides are working towards.\u00a0 For perspective, that\u2019s $28 billion less than the House of Representatives passed a few weeks ago, and $67 billion less [&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":[841,1104,70,84,59,77,1057,334,2183,71,28],"class_list":["post-9095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2012-elections","tag-activist","tag-budget","tag-congress","tag-deficit","tag-harry-reid","tag-john-boehner","tag-republican-party","tag-spending-cuts","tag-taxes","tag-tea-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9095","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=9095"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9097,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9095\/revisions\/9097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}