{"id":21103,"date":"2011-07-18T13:07:31","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T19:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=21103"},"modified":"2011-07-17T13:53:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-17T19:53:00","slug":"real-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=21103","title":{"rendered":"Real Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ever since I was a kid – hell, ever since I was a liberal – I remember Republicans running for Congress (among other offices) promising to “do something” about the deficit.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And “nothing” usually ended up being the “something” they did, because our budget situation has not only not improved, it’s gotten worse.<\/p>\n

And over the decades, we conservatives – as opposed to Republicans – dreamed about Republicans, or conservatives really, who’d put principle ahead of political expediency.<\/p>\n

And according to that conservative tool the NYTimes, we may just finally have them<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cRe-election is the farthest thing from my mind,\u201d said Representative Tom Reed, a freshman Republican from upstate New York. \u201cLike many of my colleagues in the freshman class, I came down here to get our fiscal house in order and take care of the threat to national security that we see in the federal debt. We came here not to have long careers. We came here to do something. We don\u2019t care about re-election.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Times – committed as they are to the David Brooks school of “conservatism” – is cautious…:<\/p>\n

It is not clear how genuine or widespread that sentiment is in Congress, but regardless, it has upended what President Obama said on Friday had been a \u201cdifficult but routine process\u201d in past years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…but notes a key factor in the evolution of the GOP; it’s become a conservative party with a mission.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The sheer size of the debt and its rapid growth in recent years have emboldened fiscal conservatives in the House, prompting some of them to pledge not to vote for a higher debt ceiling even if a compromise can be reached before Aug. 2, when the Treasury Department says it will hit the $14.3 trillion debt cap and run out of borrowing authority.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And that’s what’s really got the Democrats scared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ever since I was a kid – hell, ever since I was a liberal – I remember Republicans running for Congress (among other offices) promising to “do something” about the deficit.\u00a0 And “nothing” usually ended up being the “something” they did, because our budget situation has not only not improved, it’s gotten worse. And over […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21103","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=21103"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21130,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21103\/revisions\/21130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}