{"id":19357,"date":"2011-04-14T07:32:16","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T13:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=19357"},"modified":"2011-04-14T07:35:43","modified_gmt":"2011-04-14T13:35:43","slug":"you-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=19357","title":{"rendered":"The Wheels Are Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The President serves up liberal leftovers in an effort the wrest the national fiscal agenda from Congressman Paul Ryan in his campaign speech this week.<\/p>\n<p>Just one thing Mr. President:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703730104576260911986870054.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop\">According to Internal Revenue Service data<\/a>, the entire taxable income of everyone earning over $100,000 in 2008 was about $1.582 trillion. Even if all these Americans\u2014most of whom are far from wealthy\u2014were taxed at 100%, it wouldn&#8217;t cover Mr. Obama&#8217;s deficit for this year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>These are desperate times for a Democratic President that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pittsburghlive.com\/x\/pittsburghtrib\/news\/state\/s_676513.html\">can&#8217;t even keep Pennsylvania in the fold<\/a>, a state where the last Republican who won it was George H. W. Bush.<\/p>\n<p>At least Jimmy Carter had the good sense to turn apologetic, rather than imperious, when his policies tipped over the cliff.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps it&#8217;ll be Obama&#8217;s &#8220;Oberstar Moment&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Hm. \u00a0Just in time for the Tea Party Tax Day Rally!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The President serves up liberal leftovers in an effort the wrest the national fiscal agenda from Congressman Paul Ryan in his campaign speech this week. Just one thing Mr. President: According to Internal Revenue Service data, the entire taxable income of everyone earning over $100,000 in 2008 was about $1.582 trillion. Even if all these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,68,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-12","category-capitalism-v-socialism","category-president-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19357"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19365,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19357\/revisions\/19365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}