{"id":4143,"date":"2009-02-03T13:11:57","date_gmt":"2009-02-03T18:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4143"},"modified":"2009-02-03T13:11:57","modified_gmt":"2009-02-03T18:11:57","slug":"a-frayed-knot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4143","title":{"rendered":"A Frayed Knot?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a local email politics &#8220;discussion&#8221; group that&#8217;s been locked in a DFL-upsucking stranglehold for a decade or so, writing about the &#8220;stimulus&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Here we have a potential doubling of the <span id=\"lw_1233666261_1\" class=\"yshortcuts\" style=\"border-bottom: 1px dashed #0066cc; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial\">national debt<\/span> over a span of months to years and here is as much transparency as the run up to the Wars in both Vietnam and <span id=\"lw_1233666261_2\" class=\"yshortcuts\">Iraq<\/span>.\u00a0 There is as much transparency as <span id=\"lw_1233666261_3\" class=\"yshortcuts\" style=\"border-bottom: 1px dashed #0066cc; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial\">Medicare Part D<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>That is a truly pathetic level of disclosure in a democracy and the direct product of partisans.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s a liberal writing.<\/p>\n<p>One guy with enough brains to read past the hagiographic hype isn&#8217;t a trend, of course.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s a sign that we fiscal conservatives aren&#8217;t the only voices in the wilderness.<\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a local email politics &#8220;discussion&#8221; group that&#8217;s been locked in a DFL-upsucking stranglehold for a decade or so, writing about the &#8220;stimulus&#8221;: Here we have a potential doubling of the national debt over a span of months to years and here is as much transparency as the run up to the Wars in both [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4143","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=4143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}