{"id":4517,"date":"2009-04-03T06:54:21","date_gmt":"2009-04-03T11:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4517"},"modified":"2009-04-03T06:54:21","modified_gmt":"2009-04-03T11:54:21","slug":"oh-now-they-draw-the-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4517","title":{"rendered":"Oh, <i>Now<\/i> They Draw The Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To:\u00a0 Congressional Republicans<\/p>\n<p>From: Mitch Berg, mere voter<\/p>\n<p>Re: Timing is Everything, peabrains.<\/p>\n<p>Ladies and Gentlemen of the House and Senate GOP caucuses:<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m glad to see that you, plural, are finally <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redstate.com\/moe_lane\/2009\/04\/02\/the-democrats-budget-has-passed\/\">drawing the line and doing the right thing on spending:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;ve received word that the Senate passed our current budget monstrosity 55-43.  No Republican defections: we picked up Bayh and Nelson of Florida.  Earlier, the House version passed 233\/196 with no Republicans voting for it, 20 Democrats voting against it, with supposed fiscal conservatives (and European junketeers) Charlie Melancon (LA-03) and Bart Gordon (TN-06) singled out for special ridicule as being part of the group of Blue Dogs that signed off on a 3.6 trillion dollar budget.  In short, the GOP Held The Line again.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kudos.\u00a0 I&#8217;m glad.<\/p>\n<p>Now, if you&#8217;d managed a bit for of this sort of thing over the past <em>eight years<\/em>, you might just be in the majority today.<\/p>\n<p>Winston Churchill said in the wake of Dunkirk &#8220;wars aren&#8217;t won by evacutations&#8221;.\u00a0 Likewise, countries aren&#8217;t saved by rearguard actions.<\/p>\n<p>Do try to keep this in mind.<\/p>\n<p>That is all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To:\u00a0 Congressional Republicans From: Mitch Berg, mere voter Re: Timing is Everything, peabrains. Ladies and Gentlemen of the House and Senate GOP caucuses: I&#8217;m glad to see that you, plural, are finally drawing the line and doing the right thing on spending: I&#8217;ve received word that the Senate passed our current budget monstrosity 55-43. No [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4517","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=4517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}