{"id":19569,"date":"2011-04-27T11:00:24","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T17:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=19569"},"modified":"2011-04-27T07:25:13","modified_gmt":"2011-04-27T13:25:13","slug":"no-pain-no-gain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=19569","title":{"rendered":"No Pain, No Gain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Polls are showing the GOP <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/washington\/2011-04-25-Poll-Republicans-budget-deficit-trust.htm\">didn&#8217;t nake nearly as big a hit from Ryan&#8217;s budget plan<\/a> as the Dems hoped:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ryan and other Republican House members already have faced hostile questions at town-hall-style meetings in their home districts from seniors and others about the GOP proposal to turn the nation\u2019s health care program for the elderly into what would essentially be a voucher system. The GOP budget blueprint would overhaul Medicare, turn Medicaid into block grants for the states and trim trillions of dollars in spending on discretionary programs. It would lower tax rates for top earners and corporations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe bad news for the Democrats is that even after the Ryan budget comes out and has been attacked for a little while, the Republicans have an advantage,\u201d says Joseph White, a political scientist at Case Western Reserve University who studies budget politics and policy.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans have held their political base intact, he says, but the nation is still polarized along partisan lines, and spending cuts are easier when they\u2019re discussed in the abstract. \u201cEverybody can find something they don\u2019t like,\u201d he says, \u201cbut that doesn\u2019t mean there\u2019s a majority to cut anything in particular.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Dems <em>so <\/em>hoped there&#8217;d be a free-fall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polls are showing the GOP didn&#8217;t nake nearly as big a hit from Ryan&#8217;s budget plan as the Dems hoped: Ryan and other Republican House members already have faced hostile questions at town-hall-style meetings in their home districts from seniors and others about the GOP proposal to turn the nation\u2019s health care program for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-capitalism-v-socialism","category-conservatism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19569","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19569"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19599,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19569\/revisions\/19599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}